The biggest Wall Street story most Americans haven’t yet heard of is the $62 trillion unregulated credit default swaps market. Here is one scenario: A hedge fund buys insurance in case a company ...

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 ...

Nomura Asset Management’s Richard Hodges began the year by buying credit default swaps, worried that rate cut bets were becoming too aggressive. He reduced the hedge when the cost of protection ...

Immediately after the administration announced last week that it would be sending legislation to Congress to regulate derivatives, “experts” in the media started repeating the erroneous statements ...

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 ...

LONDON, March 30 (Reuters) - Turbulence in Europe's banks following the implosion of 167-year-old Credit Suisse CSGN.S and runs on regional banks in the U.S. has focused attention on the role played ...

Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- The European sovereign debt crisis stands as the latest in a long line of similar crises. Argentina in 2001. Russia in 1998. Mexico in 1994. The list goes back into history.

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - SEC Chairman Christopher Cox has called on Congress to pass legislation that would make so-called credit default swaps more transparent, including requiring that dealers in ...

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 ...