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 ...

The cost of protecting Oracle Corp.’s debt against default is surging by the most since 2021, as jittery investors and ...

Oracle sees widening CDS amid rising CapEx and negative free cash flow, with industry peers facing similar pressures. Check ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK (Reuters) -Spreads on U.S. government credit default swaps (CDS), market-based gauges of the ...

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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 ...

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 -- ...

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, ...

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 ...