WaMu Pool WMALT 2007-0C1 August Update

"MC" sent a few new charts of the Washington Mutual Alt-A pool WMALT 2007-0C1 that I have been tracking. Chris Puplava at Financial Sense provided additional charts.

Thanks Chris and "MC".

WMALT 2007-0C1 pool has been the "poster child" for what is happening with Alt-A. Although it is just one pool, it is arguably indicative of the rotten nature of liar loans in general.

Pool Stats



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Inquiring minds may be asking about lines 7 and 8 on the above screen.

• Line 9 is the sum of lines 4, 5, 7, and 8 (anything 60 days late or greater plus all previous foreclosures and REOs)
• Line 10 is the sum of lines 5, 7, 8 (anything 90 days late or greater plus all previous foreclosures and REOs).

REOs and Delinquencies are Soaring



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REOs right scale, 90+ delinquencies left scale

Foreclosures are Soaring




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Foreclosures right scale, delinquencies left scale

Cesspool Data

The pool data just keeps getting uglier and uglier.

Month      REO     60+

10-2007   0.00%   11.53%
11-2007   0.04%   13.30%
12-2007   0.64%   16.83%
01-2008   1.83%   19.32%
02-2008   3.56%   22.69%
03-2008   4.44%   24.86%
04-2008   6.21%   28.69%
05-2008   7.77%   30.41%
06-2008  10.48%  31.53%
07-2008  10.83%  32.75%
08-2008  11.89%  34.65%

Say GoodBye To Reporting On This Cesspool

This is the last update on this tragic cesspool. The reason can be found in the following chart of Rating Changes.



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On 2008-08-25, at long last, the S&P finally saw fit to downgrade tranches A1-A4 to BBB and A5 to B where they belonged many, many months ago. Moody's still has not acted but most likely soon will.

"MC" writes "This is the widest split rating that I have ever seen".

Now that there is more realistic ratings (at least from the S&P), I see little reason to keep tracking this pool. However, I have a potential new poster child in the on deck circle that we can look at.

Tranche List



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Tranches A1-A5 represent 92.5% of this pool, yet It took pool delinquencies in excess of 34% and REOs approaching 12% to get the S&P to finally act.

If this is the best Moody's and the S&P can do, they do not belong in business. In my opinion, the only reason they can possibly survive with rating performance so lousy is because of SEC sponsorship.

I gladly repeat what I have said many times over the past year: It's Time To Break Up The Credit Rating Cartel.

Mike "Mish" Shedlock
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
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