...it's not insurance, it's "credit-default swaps?" Panic, is what is happening over at the mortgage bank.
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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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At this point, it makes sense to explain just what a credit default swap, or CDS, is.
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...said the state would classify certain types of credit default swaps as insurance...
The state will regulate a chunk of the derivatives as insurance, requiring issuers to put up reserves and be licensed...
The unregulated and poorly reported credit default swaps may have actually passed...
Amount includes cash proceeds of $574.5-million during the third quarter, insurer says...
The SEC said it was expanding its probe into potential market manipulation, focusing on credit-default swaps.
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(NYSE:JPM)] bankers devised credit default swaps. A credit default swap is, essentially, an insurance ...
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Credit default swaps form a large but obscure market that will be put to its first big test as a looming economic...
The legal battle between UBS, the Swiss investment bank, and Paramax Capital, a group of hedge funds in Stamford, Conn.
...weekend, the cost of protecting its debt, through an instrument called a credit default swap...
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Bloomberg: Deutsche Bank Limits Credit-Default Swaps Exposing It to Bank-Failure Risk Well not exactly unexpected, but...
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