{"id":663236,"date":"2010-02-12T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/explore-the-world-of-sovereign-debt-through-cds-spreads-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-12T13:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T18:11:00","slug":"everything-you-need-to-know-about-sovereign-debt-credit-default-swaps-in-90-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/663236","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Need To Know About Sovereign Debt Credit Default Swaps In 90 Seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/explore-the-world-of-sovereign-debt-through-cds-spreads-2010-2\/heres-the-worst-ten-cases-of-sovereign-debt-note-how-ukraines-cds-currently-takes-the-cake-at-nearly-1400-bps-1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b7410250000000000722dbf\/ukraine.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ukraine\" \/><\/a>In case you haven&#8217;t heard, everyone&#8217;s freaking out over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-15-countries-at-the-greatest-risk-of-default-2010-2\">sovereign debt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And it makes perfect sense. Using the 5-year credit default swap spread as a benchmark, one can now check out just how risky some countries have become in recent years. Remember: two years ago, no one in the world would have thought that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dubai\">Dubai<\/a> would default.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s step back a second.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmavision.com\/news\/view\/cma-releases-sovereign-risk-report-for-q4-2009\/\">CMA Vision<\/a> has put together an excellent presentation on the situation all around the world in various regions. A quick read through this will get you caught up on who is weak and who is strong.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/explore-the-world-of-sovereign-debt-through-cds-spreads-2010-2\/heres-the-worst-ten-cases-of-sovereign-debt-note-how-ukraines-cds-currently-takes-the-cake-at-nearly-1400-bps-1\">Click to see the charts -&gt;<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/explore-the-world-of-sovereign-debt-through-cds-spreads-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-15-countries-at-the-greatest-risk-of-default-2010-2\">EVERYONE&#8217;S FREAKING OUT ABOUT SOVEREIGN DEBT<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/40-billion-in-hidden-greek-debt-discovered-cds-spread-spikes-like-crazy-2010-2\">\u20ac40 Billion In Hidden Greek Debt Discovered, CDS On Fire<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/thought-the-mortgage-backed-security-crisis-was-over-think-again-2010-2\">Another Wave Of Defaults Set To Hit Mortgage Backed Securities <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/kC_XWLQh5Kk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t heard, everyone&#8217;s freaking out over sovereign debt. And it makes perfect sense. Using the 5-year credit default swap spread as a benchmark, one can now check out just how risky some countries have become in recent years. Remember: two years ago, no one in the world would have thought that Dubai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Mxm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}