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Government bond default risk increasing

11/23/09

Permalink 06:46:32 am, by ct Email , 86 words   English (US)
Categories: Investment, Central Banks/Government, Bankruptcy

Source: Financial Times

FT: Bets rise on rich country bond defaults, Nov. 22, 2009

The mounting level of debt in the industrialised world is prompting a growing number of investors to use the derivatives market to bet on the chance of rich governments defaulting on bonds.

The volume of activity in sovereign credit default swaps – which measure the cost to insure against bond defaults – linked to the US, UK and Japan have doubled in the past year because of concerns about their public finances.
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