Moody's Takes No Rating Action So Far in Review of Wachovia Freeze

Moody’s Investors Service has completed the first phase of its review of Wachovia’s decision to freeze the short-term accounts of nearly 1,000 colleges and will not downgrade any of the institutions involved, the credit-rating agency announced Friday.

The initial assessment focused on 20 institutions that use money from a Commonfund short-term fund managed by Wachovia as collateral for debt. They are Berea, Colorado, Dartmouth, Smith, and Wellesley Colleges; Brown,

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