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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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Nomura Holdings Inc., Japan's largest brokerage, reduced assets linked to Italy by 83 percent from the end of September...
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European lenders’ second-quarter earnings may be lower than analyst estimates because the full extent of...
With the SEC demanding financial regulation of many US-based funds as part of the Dodd-Frank act, George Soros has...
took heart��� this week when a chart ��� showing a near-tripling in the prices of shorter-term U.S. credit default...
IFR) - The cost of protecting Norwegian paper maker Norske Skog's (NSG.OL Norske Skog's five-year credit default swaps...
year ago levels, according to the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, which collects data on global trading of...
May 28 (Bloomberg) -- Japan faces the rising risk of a reduction in its sovereign-debt rating as Prime Minister Naoto...
he said.And by crap, Icahn is referring to the very same complex and toxic assets such as Credit Default Swaps that...
Banking acquisitions. - A gain of $2 million after tax, due to the change in fair value of credit default swaps hedging...
May 26 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stock index futures gained and shares in emerging markets rallied before a report that may...
own constitutional clause that its debt ���shall not be questioned���. According to Markit, the cost of one-year US...
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expanded from insurance and financial services into much riskier instruments, which nearly caused its failure.
May 26 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks slipped, pulling the Standard & Poor���s 500 Index lower for the fourth time in five...
very well trigger a crisis that goes well beyond the banking system if the collection of bets on credit default swaps...
May 26 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stock-index futures and European shares erased gains, while Treasuries rose after reports...
Yields on benchmark two-year bonds rose 1 basis point to 8.97 percent yesterday. * Turkey���s five-year credit default...
remember, this is AIG we're talking about. It is the outfit that infamously blew up by writing credit default swaps...
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