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Credit Default Swaps Market Only $34.8 Trillion! Whew!

paul.kedrosky.com » 2008 » October » 12th » Credit Default Swaps Market Only $34.8 Trillion! Whew!

The Deposit Trust & Clearing Corporation folks do some weekend working debunking myths about credit default swaps (or, as I like to call them, rodents of unusual size). Among other things, the DTCC says that net Lehman-related CDS fund transfers will be closer to $6-billion than the $250 to $400-billion figures that had been bandied about last week. It also says that less than 1% of the CDS … Continue Reading »

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