As Bear Stearns careened toward its eventual fire sale to JPMorgan Chase last weekend, the cost of protecting its debt, through an instrument called a credit default swap, began to rise rapidly as ...

I'm worried for some reason Germany might default. Can I buy a credit default swap as insurance? Mr. MCPARTLAND: Yes, absolutely. KESTENBAUM: And could I buy a credit default swap on Ford?

The author and editors take ultimate responsibility for the content. A credit default swap is, essentially, insurance purchased against the possibility of default. Credit default swaps became ...

Five years after almost blowing up the global economy and eight years after making fortunes for Wall Street traders, the credit-default swap market is quietly fading. Rules introduced in the wake ...

The market for credit-default swaps on corporate and sovereign debt goes through a major overhaul on Wednesday, with changes that will standardize the terms of many of these insurance-like ...

When dealing with complicated investments, the details are extremely important. The credit default swap ETFs are actively, not passively, managed and use the Markit CDX credit index as a benchmark.

The cost of insuring the bonds of Credit Suisse Group AG against default in the near-term is approaching a rarely-seen level that typically signals serious investor concerns. The last recorded ...

Blythe Masters helped create credit-default swaps, a derivative that many on Wall Street hailed as a groundbreaking innovation before it played a major role in the 2008 financial meltdown.

Spreads on U.S. six-month credit default swaps (CDS) - market-based gauges of the risk of a default - widened to 70 basis points on Friday from 65 bps on Thursday, according to S&P Global Market ...

CME Group Inc. (CME) plans to exit the over-the-counter credit-default-swap clearing business next year, a move that would free $650 million to clearing members, the exchange operator said Thursday.

NEW YORK, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The cost of protecting Lehman Brothers' debt with credit default swaps soared after the bank reported a third-quarter loss and disappointed investors by failing to ...

This paper investigates the impact of infectious diseases on the evolution of sovereign credit default swap (CDS) spreads for a panel of 77 advanced and developing countries. Using annual data over ...