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

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 ...

The cost of insuring against sovereign and corporate defaults on European and Asian debt fell on Thursday as investors ...

Over the past year, Vanguard has jumped from the sidelines to become the second-largest US mutual and exchange-traded fund ...

Credit default swap contracts on Credit Suisse have failed to be triggered ... The Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee, a group of banks and investment funds that rules on CDS market matters, ...

A last-ditch attempt to trigger credit default swap contracts on Credit Suisse has failed after ... a group of banks and investment funds that rules on CDS market matters, voted unanimously against a ...

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SINGAPORE/LONDON (Reuters) - 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 ...