Investors are running for the hills these days, shaken to the core by fears that sovereign defaults will roil global markets and derail the shaky recovery. They have a lot to worry about. European ...

Emerging market debt has had a very salient couple of years, changing from a relatively sane, higher-yield product to a riskier product. In recent years, sovereign defaults have become a problem, ...

Moody’s attempt to improve the transparency and predictability of its credit ratings should be welcomed. But is it high time the agency dropped the pretence of default-signalling when, like its rivals ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Some of the world's smallest economies, especially in Africa, could be at increased risk of being unable to pay their debts in the medium term, even as developing nations have ...

The fall of President Nicolas Maduro has brought Venezuela's long-running debt crisis back into the global spotlight. One of the world's largest unresolved sovereign defaults, Venezuela's financial ...

Jochen Andritzky’s book demonstrates the importance of analysing CDS prices alongside bond prices in assessing the likelihood of sovereign default and expected recovery values. Felix Salmon examines ...

The fractured alignment between SOEs and policy banks that once underpinned China’s overseas lending model is now breaking ...

Emerging market sovereign debt faces significant risks due to high debt levels, currency devaluations, slower growth, and rising inflation leading into 2025. Equities in high-yielding emerging markets ...

A common currency is a wise and important component of European integration and economic vitality. The euro was set up presciently, but its evolution in a sequence of crises now leaves it in a ...