Sentences with phrase «betting on default»

Market indicators show little sign of investors betting on default.

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They bought credit default swaps, which meant that they were betting that people would default on their mortgages.

In 2012, JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank on Wall Street, lost $ 6.2 billion betting on credit default swaps tied to corporate debt — and then publicly lied about the losses.

After all, AIG was already writing financial reinsurance through default swaps on such mortgages, why not add to a winning bet?

Half of the bailout money effectively went in the front door of AIG and then out the backdoor to the big Wall Street banks and hedge funds that had used AIG as their counterparty to guarantee their bets on Credit Default Swaps.)

The betting odds (at time of writing) on a partial US debt default this year were 6/4 - Default and 1/2 - No Ddefault this year were 6/4 - Default and 1/2 - No DDefault and 1/2 - No DefaultDefault.

We need a show like The Bold Type to remind us that cynicism doesn't have to be the default — so here's hoping Freeform bets on its best new asset with the same confidence that the women of Bold Type would bet on themselves.

They bet on a collapse in the mortgage market by buying what are called credit default swaps (CDS), a form of insurance against bad loans.

They're effectively leveraged bets on spread movements in indices of credit default swaps.

I understand that counterparty risk, or the risk of the counterparty defaulting when they lose on a bet, is inherent when trading derivatives.

Investors exclusively betting on the HR category had it even worse with 63 % of the loans eventually defaulting or being charged off.

After all, AIG was already writing financial reinsurance through default swaps on such mortgages, why not add to a winning bet?

But John Paulson is a hedge fund manager who has shown a propensity to also focus on long / short investing and taking macro bets as well, like his foray into shorting subprime credit default swaps and betting big on gold.

We had a lot of macro protection in terms of credit default protection on bonds we didn't own, just betting that credit spreads would widen.

All this being said, your best bet to stop garnishment before it begins is to get out of default on your loans.

The New York - based firm's credit funds rose as much as sixfold last year, helped by bets that rising defaults on subprime home loans would pummel the value of mortgage - backed securities.

All that said, you can bet on 1 particular X-Man, and that's Wolverine...... specifically I'm predicting now the default game skin, and story-wise, it will be Old Man Logan.

Maybe your wishes are an exact copy of the default procedure in your state — but are you willing to bet on that?

If you want the people who bet big on the surveillance business - model to go broke, there is no better way to punish them in the marketplace than by turning off the data - spigot with tools that undo every nasty default they set in the hopes that we'll give up and use products their way, not ours.

That suggests buyers are betting on an economic recovery that would lessen real estate defaults and delinquencies.

You can bet that if someone defaulted on their home loan, there are also other debts associated with the property, including things like unpaid property taxes, utility bills, and maybe even a code violation or two.

The workaround: a lower down payment combined with private mortgage insurance, or PMI — basically a way for banks to hedge their bets if you default on the loan.

Factor in premium payments on CMBX credit - default swaps — investors can't invest directly in or bet against the index — and during the past year any short was surely a losing bet, even as the mall Big Shorters look more and more correct.

Clemente of Clemente Development, which is raising a vulture fund, is betting that CMBS loans made on projections of future rents rather than current rents will lead to rampant defaults.