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CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS
Complex financial instruments called credit default swaps (CDS) have roiled the financial markets for months. What are these things and how risky are they? Should investors worry if their mutual fund owns some of them? If a company that's been deeply involved in this area of the market goes bankrupt -- as Lehman did -- what are the ripple effects?
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The credit default swaps auction may prove to be the last chapter for the Greek sovereign debt crisis.
DealBook Online; Viterra, Canadian grain marketing and shipping firm, is in negotiations with a potential buyer; payout...
The payout on credit default swaps linked to Greece's government bonds was determined on Monday, resolving one of the...
International Swaps and Derivatives Assn decides that Greece's debt restructuring will prompt payouts on credit-default...
Restructuring of Greece's debt may well demonstrate how effective credit-default swaps are; twists and turns over...
An argument by a hedge fund, if adopted, could have major implications for the broader credit default swap market.
European banks are still stuck with almost 100 billion euros' worth of Greek government debt, and even "the credit...
The European Union is probing investment banks including Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan over possible collusion in credit...
The European Commission announced broad investigations into the world's largest banks and their roles in credit default...
Goldman Sachs is taking haircuts. It's not on the credit-default swaps of A.I.G. or any other investment, however.
LONDON (Reuters) - European corporate credit default swap spreads resumed a tightening trend on Tuesday, with...
In the late 19th century, it wasknown as the Chicago Butter an dEgg Board. Now, as the CME Group, it has fast become...
Joseph Cassano, who oversaw the unit that was heavily involved in credit default swaps, defended A.I.G.
Credit default swaps form a large but obscure market that will be put to its first big test as a looming economic...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - American International Group Inc on Saturday praised a Justice Department decision it did not...
The argument raging over credit-default swaps would not be taking place if regulators had done their jobs years ago and...
Group Ltd. The credit- default swaps index typically falls as investor confidence improves and rises as it deteriorates.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- In a world of unintended consequences, BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill could set the stage...
...mortgage bonds but were linked to them via derivatives called credit-default swaps.
This is reflected in the spreads on the credit default swaps on state bonds and the credit ratings of the bonds.
RBI deputy governor Shyamala Gopinath said in an interview that all financial sector regulators need to do their bit to...
...a risk. He also plans to offer an amendment that would eliminate so-called naked credit-default swaps...
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