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 ...

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 ...

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. 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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Spreads on U.S. government credit default swaps, market-based gauges of the risk of a sovereign default, have ticked higher amid market concerns over the U.S. government shutdown.

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Spreads on U.S. government credit default swaps (CDS), market-based gauges of the risk of a sovereign default, ticked lower on Monday amid market optimism that the longest federal ...

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - As financial markets work through a credit crisis, market players, regulators and lawmakers question if the $58 trillion credit default swaps market is one that ought to ...

Credit default swaps at Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America, Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare and Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems jumped an average of 88 basis points ...

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 ...