Discover the key differences between default and credit spread risks and why it's crucial for market participants to ...

The TED Spread is a financial metric that measures the difference between short-term U.S. Treasury rates and interbank loans. Understand its importance in assessing credit risk.

In recent months, credit spreads have narrowed to levels not seen since before the global financial crisis. These shifts signal a robust stock market and valuations above historical averages—a dual ...

Credit spreads are critical to understanding market sentiment and predicting potential stock market downturns. The “Junk to Treasury bond” spread provides signals of market stress or impending market ...

As of the end of the fourth quarter of 2006 the outstanding notional amount of U.S. corporate bonds totaled $8.2 trillion, the third largest asset class after equities and mortgage-backed securities ...

Typically, once you’ve had enough (fun or frustration) with a speculative enterprise like troubled semiconductor giant Intel (INTC), it’s usually best to part ways. However, the market still seems ...

Structural models of default are widely used to analyze corporate bond spreads, but have generally been unable to explain why risk premiums are as high as they are. This credit spread puzzle can be ...