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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 Full Story Of How Tim Geithner Secretly Bailed Out Wall Street...more

...started negotiating with the counterparties to all the credit default swaps it had...

The Warning (PBS documentary) – Brooksley Bornmore

...that unregulated financial contracts, such as credit default swaps, could pose grave...

Twenty-Two Reasons Why this Recession is Different and Why it Will...more

See: AIG: Is the Risk Systemic? ... Even more alarming is the scale of global derivatives trading, particularly for...

Observers: CIT could see credit event, but not from recent...more

Industry observers seem to agree that it will take a CIT bankruptcy, not a restructuring, to trigger a default for...

Credit Default Swaps (Statistics)more

Source: OTC Derivatives Market Statistics (BIS)

Obama to Repeat Foreclosure Phil's Mistakes?more

make the same mistakes in regulating Wall Street that led to the current crisis? That's what Frank Partnoy, a professor...

Credit Default Swaps & Regulationmore

The administration has proposed new regulations that would move a substantial part of the extant CDS market onto...

Next Covenant Tripper Could Be GS Capital’s Hawker Beechcraftmore

...when distressed debt exchanges and credit swaps started ... wrap-ups indicate that the amount of “SD,” or selective...

Market Professionals, Insider Trading And Credit Default Swapsmore

...in more exposure and demand for the credit default swaps covering the default of the...

Podcast Goodness: HFCS and Credit Default Swapsmore

What are credit default swaps? How bad for you is high-fructose corn syrup?

Gary Shilling Continues to See Deflation on the Horizonmore

Credit default swaps have been cut in half, taking them from 60 to 30 trillion.

Dick Durbin spoke about the destructive greed of the banksters...more

...judge, but because they'll get paid off on their credit default swaps due to the...

MBIA sues Merrill Lynch over credit default swapsmore

, alleging damages connected with $5.7 billion in credit default swap contracts.

Chrysler Bankruptcy Will Reopen the Pandora's Box of Counterparty...more

Updated from 12:21 p.m. EDTUpdate: Confirming earlier reports, Chrysler filed for bankruptcy Thursday afternoon, and...

Feds Zeroing In On Cassano's Valuation Of Credit Default Swapsmore

...the CDOs, which drives both the value of the credit default swaps and the amount of...

Madoffing the U.S. Financial System more

...and "unknowable" to describe the value of CDS (credit default swaps) and now they...

Stress Tests Prove that Credit Default Swaps Still Pose a Huge Risk...more

The stress tests reveal that credit default swaps and other credit derivatives still pose a huge risk to the economy.

Fairfax Financial: Now Trading Well Below Book Valuemore

As a result, FFH invested in credit default swaps. FFH was able to buy credit default swaps for approximately $270...

Too connected to fail?more

...disaster in the making-unregulated trading in credit default swaps. ... crisis has shown how financial innovations...

How Credit Default Swaps Create Bankruptciesmore

The reason are Credit Default Swaps. One can distinguish two types of Credit Default Swaps buyers: A. The CDS buyer...

akward jump libor-repo spreadmore

...secondly that of liquidity risk. Where counterparty risk can be understood as the risk that the other side of the...

National Conference of Insurance Legislators To Draft Credit Default.....more

...basis if such swaps constitute insurance.  On April 3, 2009, the NCOIL Task Force on Credit Default Swaps...

Robert Merton: Why The Financial Train Went Off The Rails (Video)more

...deceptively simple graphs to show how risk propagated rapidly ... a guarantee of debt, is the basis for the credit...

AIG's CDS Hoard: The Great Unravelingmore

Credit default swaps got AIG into its current mess. Unraveling them might get U.S. taxpayers out of it.

Andy Ostroy: Fannie and Freddie's Fuzzy Math: $100 Billion in Losses.....more

...the entire U.S. financial industry with their ultra-high-risk credit default swaps and derivatives...

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