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 ...

Emerging market debt has had a very salient couple of years, changing from a relatively sane, higher-yield product to a riskier product. In recent years, sovereign defaults have become a problem, ...

Sovereign debt restructurings can have large impacts on trade, with a significant compression of imports and a more ambiguous effect on exports. We show that the magnitude of that impact depends on ...

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

LONDON (Reuters) - Some of the world's smallest economies, especially in Africa, could be at increased risk of being unable to pay their debts in the medium term, even as developing nations have ...

Moody’s attempt to improve the transparency and predictability of its credit ratings should be welcomed. But is it high time the agency dropped the pretence of default-signalling when, like its rivals ...

SINGAPORE/LONDON, April 7 (Reuters) - 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 ...

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.

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 ...

A common currency is a wise and important component of European integration and economic vitality. The euro was set up presciently, but its evolution in a sequence of crises now leaves it in a ...

Trump’s tax cuts and soaring US debt fuel Bitcoin’s rise as a hedge against sovereign default risks, potentially pushing BTC price toward $200,000 or more by 2025. Bitwise predicts Bitcoin could hit ...