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Reuters
Posted: Thu, Oct 11 2007, 2:26 pm EDT
Post subject: Moody's Downgrades Home Builders to 'Junk'
Moody's Downgrades Home Builders to 'Junk'
By Reuters | 11 Oct 2007 | 11:01 AM ET
Moody's Investors Service on Thursday cut its ratings on home builders Centex, Lennar and Pulte Homes to junk status, saying it expects bleak housing industry conditions to linger at least until 2009.
The downgrades affect about $9.4 billion of debt and $3.25 billion of commercial paper authorizations, Moody's said.
Key problems facing homebuilders include rapidly declining orders, high housing inventories, disruptions in the mortgage market and heavy cancellations, Moody's said in a statement.
Affordability issues are also weighing on key markets while confidence is ebbing among potential homebuyers, Moody's said.
It will be challenging for the three companies, as well as for much of the entire industry, to stay in compliance in the coming year with debt leverage covenants, the rating agency said. Covenants are restrictions in borrowing agreements.
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/21249064