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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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...an interesting post on the link between credit default swaps and short-selling. My personal view is that credit...
...says “In Light of Crisis, Common Trading Practice [in Credit-default swaps] Looks Risky” and explain what are these...
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The $54,000bn credit derivatives market faces its biggest test this month as billions of dollars worth of contracts on...
And, of course, credit default swaps. ... to buy a municipal bond or a corporate bond but not take default risk, you...
In 1994, a group of JPMorgan bankers went on trip to the Boca Raton Resort & Club in Florida.
So far, I think that I am the only commentator who has offered a theory of how credit default swaps create systemic...
specific jargon. It will explain the role of FNMA (Fannie Mae) and FHLMC (Freddie Mac), mortgage-backed securities,...
Very informative piece from Newsweek that helps explain how we got ourselves into this financial mess: They're called...
Will credit default swaps cause the next financial crisis?: CDSes were promised as “insurance” against default, but it...
...this troubled CDS market could impact the country's credit crisis. Credit default swaps are insurance ...
But credit default swaps -- complex derivatives originally designed to ... "This was supposedly a way to hedge...
Due to lobbying by banks, credit default swaps are completely unregulated. Credit default swaps can be used in...
This is why we need a manufacturing base. As a society, we've trusted lunatics like this.
This act specifically banned the regulation of credit default swaps, financial WMD...
I don't pretend to anything more than a superficial understanding of CDS. But the value of CDS contracts is estimated...
...be explained by the possibility that Lehman had sold Credit Default Swaps on itself.
The following is a copy of a letter I emailed to Business Week about the article "Are You Exposed to Credit...
...regulation of the credit default swaps that are a large element of the current financial crisis: AIG…had been...
How 'credit default swaps'—an insurance against bad loans—turned from a smart bet into a killer.
...expanded to include trading in the $54.6 trillion credit-default swaps market…Cuomo is probing whether...
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...which could be called the House of CarDS (credit default swaps). The fear is that the massively tangled web of...
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