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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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...that unregulated financial contracts, such as credit default swaps, could pose grave...
See: AIG: Is the Risk Systemic? ... Even more alarming is the scale of global derivatives trading, particularly for...
Industry observers seem to agree that it will take a CIT bankruptcy, not a restructuring, to trigger a default for...
Source: OTC Derivatives Market Statistics (BIS)
make the same mistakes in regulating Wall Street that led to the current crisis? That's what Frank Partnoy, a professor...
The administration has proposed new regulations that would move a substantial part of the extant CDS market onto...
...when distressed debt exchanges and credit swaps started ... wrap-ups indicate that the amount of “SD,” or selective...
...in more exposure and demand for the credit default swaps covering the default of the...
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Credit default swaps have been cut in half, taking them from 60 to 30 trillion.
...judge, but because they'll get paid off on their credit default swaps due to the...
, alleging damages connected with $5.7 billion in credit default swap contracts.
Updated from 12:21 p.m. EDTUpdate: Confirming earlier reports, Chrysler filed for bankruptcy Thursday afternoon, and...
...the CDOs, which drives both the value of the credit default swaps and the amount of...
...and "unknowable" to describe the value of CDS (credit default swaps) and now they...
The stress tests reveal that credit default swaps and other credit derivatives still pose a huge risk to the economy.
As a result, FFH invested in credit default swaps. FFH was able to buy credit default swaps for approximately $270...
...disaster in the making-unregulated trading in credit default swaps. ... crisis has shown how financial innovations...
The reason are Credit Default Swaps. One can distinguish two types of Credit Default Swaps buyers: A. The CDS buyer...
...secondly that of liquidity risk. Where counterparty risk can be understood as the risk that the other side of the...
...basis if such swaps constitute insurance. On April 3, 2009, the NCOIL Task Force on Credit Default Swaps...
...deceptively simple graphs to show how risk propagated rapidly ... a guarantee of debt, is the basis for the credit...
Credit default swaps got AIG into its current mess. Unraveling them might get U.S. taxpayers out of it.
...the entire U.S. financial industry with their ultra-high-risk credit default swaps and derivatives...
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