That s why market interest rates on privately held Greek bonds and prices for credit default swaps indicate that a massive default is coming.

The substantial surge in the interest rate on Greek bonds relative to German bonds in the past few weeks shows that the market now regards such a default as increasingly likely.

But, because Greek euro bonds were regarded as a close substitute for other countries euro bonds, the interest rate on Greek bonds did not rise as Greece increased its borrowing until the market began to fear a possible default.

Developed countries that issue bonds in their own currency never default, because they can always print money.

When financial markets discovered that supposedly riskless government bonds might be forced into default, they raised risk premiums dramatically.

By creating the European Central Bank, the member states exposed their own government bonds to the risk of default.

US municipal bonds are already trading at huge risk premia, and the first big government default hasn t even hit yet.

The first shaky principle is that if the return on these bonds is highly correlated, so that they all default at the same time, overcollateralization is not much help.

During a typical recession, the default rate among corporations may rise to 10 15 , threatening massive losses for those holding risky corporate bonds.

But the greatest damage may come from the credit default swaps (CDS) market that brought down AIG. Huge bets have undoubtedly been placed on the bonds of GM, Ford, Chrysler, and GMAC, and bankruptcy will be a CDS triggering event requiring repayment of these bonds.

According to the bonds collective action clause (CAC), this would not amount to a default if 75 of bondholders accepted the change of venue.

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Under the court order, Argentina may not pay the holders of the new bonds unless it also pays the holdouts, and no US financial institution can serve as an intermediary to make payments for Argentina. As a result, Argentina must either pay the holdouts in full or default on the new bonds.

Surely there is at least as much natural demand for commodity bonds as there is for credit default swaps and some of the bizarrely complicated derivatives that are currently traded!

Yet they are the obvious solution to the root cause of the euro crisis, which is that joining the euro exposed member countries government bonds to the risk of default.

Sunstein and Thaler would have the employer choose a default option that works for most people, such as 60 in equities, 30 in bonds, and 10 in money market funds.

Either banks need to default on their senior obligations, or the government will need to default alongside the banks.

CAMBRIDGE Greece will default on its national debt.

The yen s rising value raises the yield on Japanese bonds relative to the yield on bonds denominated in other currencies.

Investors would be able to buy Guatemala s coffee bonds, Côte d Ivoire s cocoa bonds, Liberia s rubber bonds, Mali s cotton bonds, and Ghana s gold bonds.

Despite this, Germany continued to default on her obligations.

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In the US, the interest rate on government bonds now rises from 1.80 at five years to 2.86 for 10 year bonds and 3.70 for 30 year bonds.

In particular, since the European Central Bank has clearly rejected quantitative easing, investors will want to buy euro bonds issued by Germany and other European countries that are not in danger of default.

To be sure, the bondholders might refuse, given that, if they individually declared the exchange bonds to be in default, they could demand in court immediate payment in full of the remaining debt.

Interest rates on government bonds were racing upward.

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Obviously, markets still believe that Greece will default on its debt.

LONDON Everyone knows that Greece will default on its external debt.

Therefore governments rarely default on the entire value of their debt.

In December 2001, the Government declared default on its external debt.

Government bonds, on the other hand, have no covenants.

Jamaica, for example, would issue aluminum bonds Nigeria would issue oil bonds Sierra Leone would issue iron ore bonds and Mongolia would issue copper bonds.

On 3 October 2010, Germany made the final payment on these bonds.

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Sovereign cocos have the advantage that their activation would not constitute a credit event triggering the credit default swaps written on the bonds. The existence of large quantities of CDS, together with uncertainty about who has written them, has fed the reluctance to proceed with restructuring.

The only way out is for Greece to default on its sovereign debt.

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