Explore what credit risk is, its impact on loans and investments, the role of credit ratings, and real-world examples to mitigate potential financial losses.

A panel overseeing the credit default swaps market is asking for external help to decide whether a recent debt deal between ...

It’s usually not a good sign when obscure financial instruments are making headlines. And that’s the case now as the political standoff over the U.S. government’s debt ceiling puts credit-default ...

A default happens when you have skipped one or several payments in a row on a loan or credit card. Since defaulting can cause your credit (and overall financial health) to quickly plummet, you want to ...

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 ...

The blowups of First Brands and Tricolor — while unusual given the allegations of financial irregularities against them — ...

When crisis strikes, humans naturally seek a simple explanation. In turn, simple explanations require simple causes. Until recently, sub-prime mortgages were assigned much of the blame for the Panic ...

The term "naked CDS (Credit Default Swap)" has been tossed around a lot lately, with little to no examination of the etymology of the term. You may have heard of "naked short selling" of stock, and a ...

Jamie Dimon, CEO of the largest bank in the U.S. and one of the largest in the world used the term cockroaches when referring ...

Fees are Average compared to funds in the same category. NYLI Candriam Emerging Markets Debt Fund has an expense ratio of 1.15 percent. Risk is Below Average compared to funds in the same category ...