Tue 2008-10-28 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Good and Bad News on Lehman Credit Default Swap Settlement

Lehman CDS

Bad News; good; Lehman credit default swaps settlement; naked capitalism.

Wed 2008-10-22 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: MetLife, XL Capital Credit Default Swaps Trading at Distressed Levels

distressed levels; MetLife; naked capitalism; XL Capital Credit Default Swaps Trading.

Tue 2008-09-23 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: New York to Regulate Some Credit Default Swaps

Credit Default Swap; naked capitalism; New York; Regulators.

Tue 2008-08-26 00:00 EDT

The Credit Default Swap Market - Will It Unravel?

by Satyajit Das (Prudent Bear); 2008-03-04; "CDS contracts may create incentives for creditors to push troubled companies into bankruptcy"

credit default swaps market; unravelling.

Sun 2008-08-24 00:00 EDT

Here comes the downsizing of finance

by Martin Hutchinson (Prudent Bear); auction-rate securities (ARS); credit default swaps (CDS); ``CDS market creates many times as much risk as it hedges or transfers''; GSEs ``leveraged more than would have been possible without the governments quasi-guarantee, lobbied like to crazy to ensure they were not properly regulated and collapsed thankfully into the arms of the taxpayer as soon as ill winds began to blow...by their presence they turned the soundest product in financial markets, the home mortgage, into an obscene speculative casino, causing collateral damage of many times their own losses.'' ``much of the financial services innovation of the last generation was spurious and unsound, and needs to be done away with''

comes; downsizing; finance.

Wed 2008-07-09 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Credit Default Swaps Traders Downgrade Fannie and Freddie

Credit Default Swaps Traders Downgrade Fannie; Freddie; naked capitalism.

Mon 2008-06-23 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Bond Insurers Seeking to Exit $125 Billion of Credit Default Swaps

125; bond insurer seeks; Credit Default Swap; exit; naked capitalism.

Tue 2008-06-10 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Like It or Not, the Credit Default Swaps Market is Too Big to Fail

big; credit default swaps market; fail; naked capitalism.

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.

Mon 2008-06-02 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Warning: Credit Default Swaps May Not Work As Advertised (And That's Even When They Do Work)

Advertisers; Credit Default Swap; naked capitalism; warning; working.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.