The short-term cost of insuring exposure to U.S. government debt climbed further on Friday in a sign of investor nervousness.

The cost of insuring against sovereign and corporate defaults on European and Asian debt fell on Thursday as investors breathed a sigh of relief at a pause on some of the heaviest U.S. tariffs. U.S. P ...

See how we rate investing products to write unbiased product reviews. A credit default swap (CDS) is a contract that allows one party (an investor) to transfer some or all risk to a third party ...

CDS Shift Algebris Investments portfolio manager Gabriele Foa warned in February that high-yield credit default swaps, which protect against defaults, were trading at levels that had only been ...

Both one-year and six-month U.S. credit default swaps--which act as insurance against a default--jumped seven basis points to 58 basis points, the highest reading since May 2023, S&P Global Market ...

Use pull-backs to rebalance, not chase," she said. In terms of sovereign debt, five-year U.S. sovereign credit default swap spreads contracted by just 1 basis point on the day to 52 bps ...

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 ...

What was the utility of the credit default swap in that case? Well, the basic concept or the original driver of credit derivatives was for banks to be able to transfer credit risk off of their ...