Credit default swaps (CDS) provide insurance against the default of a debt issuer. With a CDS, the buyer pays a premium to a seller for this protection. If the issuer defaults, the seller compensates ...

Credit default swaps (CDSs) provide protection for investors in the event that the borrower defaults on their debt or loan.

This article provides evidence that firm value declines when credit default swaps (CDSs) are initiated and that the effect is greater when CDS trading activity is higher. This decline, which arises ...

LONDON (Citywire) - Asset management houses may increasingly piggy-back on their hedge fund arms during volatile markets to protect their corporate bond funds with credit default swaps (CDSs). A CDS ...

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 Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. The ...

Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union's agreement with banks for a voluntary 50 percent writedown on their Greek bond holdings means $3.7 billion of debt-insurance contracts won't be triggered, ...

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. The cost of insuring exposure to U.S. government debt has ...

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 ...