Do sovereign ratings provide a reliable indication of prospective sovereign default risk or merely a measure of the expected loss involved? It’s a moot point, but an important one, particularly as ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The cost of insuring exposure to U.S. government debt has climbed to its highest in nearly one year, suggesting investors are getting nervous about a U.S. presidential election ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Spreads on U.S. government credit default swaps, market-based gauges of the risk of a sovereign default, have ticked higher amid market concerns over the U.S. government shutdown.

The fractured alignment between SOEs and policy banks that once underpinned China’s overseas lending model is now breaking ...

SINGAPORE/LONDON >> Global credit markets began to come under fire on Monday, driving the cost of insuring against corporate and sovereign default higher, as recession fears rippled across equities, ...

Investors are running for the hills these days, shaken to the core by fears that sovereign defaults will roil global markets and derail the shaky recovery. They have a lot to worry about. European ...

The historical movements in 1-year (BLUE) and 5-year annualized default probabilities for the USA are given below for the last 10 years:The next graph shows the current term structure of the default ...

When assessing business risk from operating in a country, you will be affected by uncertainty that arises from almost every source. The simplest and most longstanding measure of country risk takes the ...

The US takeover of Venezuela's oil exports has re-routed crude barrels that were being used to service debt owed to China.

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Spreads on U.S. government credit default swaps (CDS), market-based gauges of the risk of a sovereign default, ticked lower on Monday amid market optimism that the longest federal ...

Jochen Andritzky’s book demonstrates the importance of analysing CDS prices alongside bond prices in assessing the likelihood of sovereign default and expected recovery values. Felix Salmon examines ...

LONDON, April 24 (Reuters) - Ghana and Zambia battled their way to debt restructuring deals with their primary creditors last year, but simmering disagreements over two key African banks could keep ...