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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

LONDON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The cost of insuring exposure to Britain's sovereign debt edged up to a more than 12-week high on Thursday. Five-year credit default swaps rose 1 basis point to 22 basis ...

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 ...