Wed 2008-06-18 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: MBIA Refuses to Downstream Cash, Uses CDS Fears to Defy Regulators

Defy Regulators; Downstreams Cash; MBIA Refuses; naked capitalism; Uses CDS Fears.

Wed 2008-06-04 00:00 EDT

The Yellow Brick Road > How to price ABX.HE credit default swaps

The Yellow Brick Road > How to price ABX.HE credit default swaps; shady banks using CDS insurance deals for cheap credit? "creditors are about to be duped twice"

Credit Default Swap; price ABX; Yellow-brick road.

Mon 2008-06-02 00:00 EDT

Satyajit Das's Blog - Fear & Loathing in Financial Products: The Credit Default Swap (``CDS'') Market -- Will It Unravel?

Satyajit Das's Blog - Fear & Loathing in Financial Products: The Credit Default Swap ("CDS") Market - Will It Unravel?

CDS; Credit Default Swap; fears; financial products; loath; Market; Satyajit Das's Blog; unravelling.

Wed 2008-05-21 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Credit Default Swaps Losses Estimated at $150 Billion

CDS "Damocles sword waiting to fall", says Soros

150; Credit Default Swaps Losses Estimated; naked capitalism.

Fri 2008-03-28 00:00 EDT

Market Ticker: AA^2? Mayyyybe! Oh, And CDS Explosion, Part 2

2; AA; CDS Explosion; Market Ticker; Mayyyybe; Part 2.

Thu 2008-03-27 00:00 EDT

Wal-Mart Wants $10 CDs : Rolling Stone

Wal-Mart Wants $10 CDs, by Warren Cohen : Rolling Stone; 2004-10-12

10 CDS; Rolling Stone; Wal-Mart wants.

Thu 2008-03-27 00:00 EDT

Slashdot | Must a CD Cost $15.99?

Wal-Mart "elling the major record labels to lower the price of CDs or risk losing retail space to DVDs and video games"

15; 99; CD costs; Slashdot.

Thu 2008-02-14 00:00 EST

Minyanville -

Default Swaps Intensify Credit Crunch, by Rob Roy (Minyanville); "Counterparty risk may be greatest risk of all."; impending CDS blowup;

Minyanville.

Thu 2008-02-14 00:00 EST

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Credit Default Swap Tsunami Approaches

impending CDS blowup

Credit Default Swap Tsunami Approaches; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis.

Thu 2008-01-03 00:00 EST

Sudden Debt: Further On CDS

(2007-11-30)

CDS; further; Sudden Debt.

Fri 2007-11-30 00:00 EST

naked capitalism: Counterparty Risk Problems With Credit Default Swaps?

(45 trillion notional CDS outstanding; counterparties "concerned about collecting from hedge funds that were long"?

Counterparty Risk Problems; Credit Default Swap; naked capitalism.

Fri 2007-11-30 00:00 EST

Sudden Debt: CDS: Phantom Menace

CDS notional amounts increased from 26 to 46 trillion in last year; "far more CDSs are written relative to the amounts outstanding in individual bonds and thus credit events will infect and destroy much more speculative capital"; "generate highly volatile equity exposure with minimal or even zero margin requirements"

CDS; Phantom Menace; Sudden Debt.

Mon 2007-11-05 00:00 EST

Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Daisy Chains and Dead Men Walking

Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Daisy Chains and Dead Men Walking; credit default swaps rate Merrill, Citgroup below investment grade; CDS debacle looming

daisy chain; Dead Men Walking; economic; Market; watch; winter.

Mon 2007-11-05 00:00 EST

Economist.com

Credit derivatives | At the risky end of finance | (CDS debacle looming)

com; Economist.

Mon 2007-11-05 00:00 EST

PrudentBear

Road to Ruin: Credit Bubble Bulletin, by Doug Noland; "subprime and the SIVs were peanuts in comparison to the CDO market. Well, the CDO marketplace is chump change compared to Credit Default Swaps and other over-the-counter (OTC) Credit derivatives that...have never been tested in a Credit or economic downturn"; CDS debacle looming

Prudentbear.

Mon 2007-11-05 00:00 EST

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Downward Spiral of Deep Junk

CDS debacle looming; MBIA, Ambac trading as deep junk

Deep Junk; downward spiral; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis.