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 ...

Credit derivatives, especially credit default swaps, are expected to continue their upward trajectory due to geopolitical tensions, the AI boom and economic uncertainties.

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 ...

Few Americans have heard of credit default swaps, arcane financial instruments invented by Wall Street about a decade ago. But if the economy keeps slowing, credit default swaps may become a household ...

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - As financial markets work through a credit crisis, market players, regulators and lawmakers question if the $58 trillion credit default swaps market is one that ought to ...

What happens tomorrow to billions of dollars worth of an arcane investment instrument called a credit-default swap could determine whether the frozen credit markets can regain liquidity. The swaps -- ...

Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Confidence in the credit-default swaps market may be undermined by the European Union's plan to resolve the euro region's sovereign debt crisis. The EU said yesterday that it ...

Investors are getting nervous the U.S. government might struggle to pay its debt — and they are snapping up insurance in case it defaults. Stream San Diego News for free, 24/7, wherever you are with ...

WASHINGTON — It can be a fine line between investing and gambling. But in Las Vegas, you know the odds. On Wall Street, that's not always the case. Especially when it comes to the $62 trillion market ...

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 ...