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.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Few Americans have heard of credit default swaps, arcane financial instruments invented by Wall Street about a decade ago. But if the economy keeps slowing, credit default swaps may become a household ...

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 ...

What happens tomorrow to billions of dollars worth of an arcane investment instrument called a credit-default swap could determine whether the frozen credit markets can regain liquidity. The swaps -- ...

That's part of what Greece's prime minister, George Papandreou, blames for his country's financial crisis. A credit default swap is a form of insurance on bonds that investors buy and sell. When it ...

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, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Corporate bonds and loans have underperformed credit default swap protection on the debt in recent weeks, encouraging some investors to enter into trades that profit from ...