Discover how the Credit Default Swap Index (CDX) tracks corporate credit risks, offering investors tools for diversification and hedging within North American and emerging markets.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

They're back in the headlines. As the United States edges closer to the deadline for a debt default, Wall Street speculators are hoping to capitalize on rising risk by trading credit-default swaps ...

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 ...