So why bother with credit-default swaps on nations?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Strangest Financial Instrument] Reference

There's been no problem with the credit-default swap-market to date.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Is To Blame?] Reference

This will give Sarah Palin time to learn about credit-default swaps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking: McCain Campaign Suspends Campaign Due To Crisis, Calls On Delay For Debate] Reference

This brings us to the odd business of credit-default swaps on countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Strangest Financial Instrument] Reference

The problem is the credit-default swaps they wrote, which are in the trillions.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 2, 2009] Reference

In the case of Abacus, Goldman was Paulson's counterparty for the credit-default swaps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paulson Holds Second Investor Call] Reference

But AIG had too many credit-default swaps on its books, and almost collapsed as a result.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Is To Blame?] Reference

One of the most problematic derivatives in recent years is known as a "credit-default swap.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A primer on financial derivatives] Reference

So it was on his watch that the credit-default swaps warhead that has blown up our economy was launched.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arianna Huffington: Larry Summers: Brilliant Mind, Toxic Ideas] Reference

The canceled credit-default swaps were on about 70% of the "Abacus" asset pools, or CDOs, that AIG insured.    From Wordnik.com.  [AIG, Goldman Unwind Soured Trades] Reference

Goldman bought credit-default swaps from AIG to hedge the securities firm's positions in some of the pools.    From Wordnik.com.  [AIG, Goldman Unwind Soured Trades] Reference

So he began purchasing credit-default swaps -- essentially insurance -- on certain subprime mortgage bonds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Burry: The Unlikely Investing Genius In Michael Lewis's Latest Book] Reference

The president, it would seem, trusts Mr. Dimon to put those complicated credit-default swaps in plain terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dimon-for-Geithner Countdown?] Reference

Why did Goldman buy credit-default protection from AIG — bets on which the taxpayer later made Goldman whole?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goldman vs. Its Clients] Reference

Selling credit-default swaps is a fantastic business so long as the insured instruments or companies don't fail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Strangest Financial Instrument] Reference

The successful auction came despite a recent spike in credit-default insurance costs for Portugal and a Standard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Portugal Auction Sees Strong Demand] Reference

Deutsche Bank facilitated the deals, earning fees, by selling credit-default swaps to the hedge funds and clients.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEC Probes Other Soured Deals] Reference

Also, the cost of credit-default swaps for several peripheral debtors continued to push to new record highs Tuesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Banks, Resource Shares Lead Europe Higher] Reference

The spread on five-year Irish credit-default swaps jumped to 4.33 percentage points from 3.87 percentage points Thursday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ireland Woes Hit European Shares] Reference

The proposals also cover credit-default swaps and the clearing and greater standardization of over-the-counterderivatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [EU Draft Rules Target Short Selling] Reference

The proposals also cover credit-default swaps and the clearing and greater standardization of over-the-counter derivatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [EU Proposals Target Short Selling] Reference

Investors have also used credit-default swaps to place bets on the likelihood that a company will be unable to pay its debts.    From Wordnik.com.  [A primer on financial derivatives] Reference

Banks in Europe have used credit-default swaps to reduce the amount of cash they are required to keep on hand relative to loans.    From Wordnik.com.  [A primer on financial derivatives] Reference

As many of us learned painfully during the economic meltdown, credit-default swaps are a form of insurance on financial instruments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Strangest Financial Instrument] Reference

Think about what you've got to work with if you write about the markets: dividends, derivatives, credit-default swaps -- dark pools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Pools, Yes, 'Might Need More Light'] Reference

The banks have made mega-bets with one another through complicated instruments such as derivatives, credit-default swaps, and so forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph E. Stiglitz on capitalist fools] Reference

The story from regulators during the crisis was that credit-default swap counterparties had to be paid lest the financial system collapse.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Systemic Risk' Stonewall] Reference

The last time we had a set of events that were supposed to trigger large-scale payment of credit-default swaps, the system basically shut down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Strangest Financial Instrument] Reference

Riskier sovereign debt has rallied, credit-default insurance costs are at two-month lows and the euro is flirting with an 11-week high against the dollar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across Europe, Glimmers of Optimism Emerge] Reference

And, for old time's sake, why not recall Alan Greenspan, who assured the public that credit-default swaps and shadow banks like AIG didn't need to be regulated.    From Wordnik.com.  [They Got the Wrong Guy] Reference

For now, rallies in the credit-default swaps market where investors buy protection against debt defaults have brought insurance costs back down to mid-May levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across Europe, Glimmers of Optimism Emerge] Reference

In the sovereign credit-default swap market, investors can purchase (and trade) protection against the default of debt issued by governments, such as, say, Greece.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Strangest Financial Instrument] Reference

The euro gained against the dollar, the Markit iTraxx Senior Financials index of credit-default swaps rallied, and southern European government-bond spreads narrowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funding Test for European Banks] Reference

If there is to be a standard measurement for the safety of a bond, the bond's yield and the cost of insuring it in the credit-default swap market are two good facts to consider.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kilroy Was Here, Alas] Reference