Credit default swaps (CDSs) provide protection for investors in the event that the borrower defaults on their debt or loan. They can play a pivotal part in financial and investment industries, as they ...

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Market regulators agreed yesterday to collaborate on the oversight of credit default swaps, the insurance-like derivative contracts that got American International Group into trouble, and said that at ...

The administration's blueprint for fixing the financial system contains a few words not exactly easy on the ears - credit default swaps. Credit default swaps are those financial instruments that got ...

A credit derivative contract used as protection against a potential default on a debt security or for speculation. An investor buying a credit default swap pays a regular fee to transfer the risk that ...

Investors are getting nervous the U.S. government might struggle to pay its debt — and they are snapping up insurance in case it defaults. The cost of insuring exposure to U.S. government debt has ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who began investigating short-selling abuses in the stock market last week, is now taking a hard look at whether credit default swaps are ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Spreads on U.S. government credit default swaps, market-based gauges of the risk of a sovereign default, ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 -- In what may shape up to be the most expensive payout ever in the credit-default swap market, sellers of insurance against a debt default by Lehman Brothers will have to pay 91.375 ...

Stocks have risen this year despite uncertainties and outright hostilities in U.S. politics and around the world. But bonds and other markets show signs of concern, our columnist says. By Jeff Sommer ...