Markets now price in the risk of the US government defaulting on its debts. The risk is small, but it should be zero.

Through time, governments have often been dependent on debt to finance themselves, some in the local currency and much in a ...

The median risk of default for publicly traded US companies rose across most sectors from the end of March through the end of ...

Stress and default risk top the list of concerns facing participants in the ever-growing private credit sector over the next ...

There’s a sense of complacency,” Collin Martin, Schwab Center for Financial Research fixed-income strategist, tells Bloomberg ...

Credit markets are rallying but there’s elevated risk of some companies not repaying debt, according to the Schwab Center for Financial Research. “There’s a sense of complacency,” Collin Martin, the ...

Harvard Kennedy School Professor Carmen Reinhart, an expert on financial crises and sovereign debt, unpacks bond market ...

A new paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago uses an arcane security known as a credit default swap, or CDS, to estimate the risk of the US Treasury defaulting on a payment.

If you're in default on your loans, the pause gives you time to take action before your Social Security benefits are at risk.

The United States of America is never going to default, that is never going to happen,” said U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott ...

Citadel's founder and CEO Ken Griffin said on Thursday it is "unfathomable" that a financial instrument to protect against an ...