Can you explain Credit Default Swaps?
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I am seeing this in the political literature of the US and European Nations and I am not sure that I understand its' significance in the present plight of the global economy but I am sure that the US is expected to take the "lead" on revamping our policies concerning it.
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A credit default swap ("CDS") is when Company A buys protection on the debt of Company B from...
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How they "work" in plain talk without a lot of arcane economic jargon?
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It's pretty straightforward. A credit default swap (CDS) is an agreement that the seller of the CDS...
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Answer the following questions clearly and briefly, using your OWN WORDS: 1.Describe the turnover of swaps in the Australian Over The Counter (OTC) market. 2.Compare the features of overnight indexed swaps to that of plain vanilla, fixed-for-floating...
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The turnover in swaps in the Australian OTC market has increased by almost a factor of 6 from 94/95...
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The way I've heard credit default swaps explained is that if I buy swaps on Acme Co's debt, and Acme defaults, I wait until the recovery amount is decided, and get paid based on that. So if bondholders get 15 cents on the dollar, I get 85 cents for every...
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Three problems 1) Part of the problem is that the price of a bond is affected by a dozen things other...
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Banks are preparing for a rise in defaults on credit card debt. That debt is securitized, and although home-equity loans have overtaken credit-card debt since 2003 it still makes up a good percentage of asset-backed securities. Are those credit-card...
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The other category is a grab bag, but I'd guess the biggest chunk of it in the last couple years is...
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Can retail investor use Credit Default Swaps. or FX Swaps. if YES Where from or which broker?
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I heard Bill Ackman saying a while back that if Herbalife were to privatize, he would simply short the company through other avenues such as through credit default swaps. I understand the basics of CDS securities, but I thought they only secured the...
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Only if somebody wants to take the long end for you. The challenge with the private companies is that...
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I can't choose best answer because I'm not at level 2. The main thrust of question is, since BK's have underwritten the CDS (credit default swaps) they don't have the $$$ to pay the $32 Trillion. So how do they duck that, or do we have another "...
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Neither. They don't duck that, and there's no bailout. The "investment" of the default, is...
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According to CNBC's website, it costs $54,000 to insure $10M of Switzerland's debts via Credit Default Swaps. The only problem is that I don't have $54,000. Would it be possible for me to enter CDS for $1M of debts or even $100,000 of debts instead?...
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Of course not - credit default swaps are for institutional investors. Even if you had $54,000 you couldn...
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