In Brief: Citi Mortgage Issues Get Mixed Ratings

NEW YORK - Standard & Poor's Ratings Group affirmed or raised its ratings on $5.3 billion of residential mortgage securities issued by Citicorp.

At the same time, the agency lowered ratings on $229.2 million of the bank's mortgage-backed securities. And left another 43.7 million on CreditWatch for possible later action.

Some of the upgrades, affecting pools guaranteed by Citicorp, resulted from an upgrade in the banking company's senior debt and some resulted from increased loss protection.

The downgrades reflect increased delinquencies in some mortgage pools.

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