CME Group (CME) Details on Future Credit Default Swaps Market

CME Group (CME) and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) - both stocks we have owned in the past (we just rebought CME Friday morning) are positioning for a piece of the very huge (and very troublesome) credit default swaps market. Basically, in layman’s term this is a form of insurance but like all unregulated things it has turn perverse. What originally was supposed to be used as insurance against a position (debt) you held, has now turned into an AK 47 by hedge funds. The best quote I saw in the past month was just imagine if you could buy life insurance contracts on other people - what would their half life be?…
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  11 October, 2008| Fundamental Analysis | @ 11:10

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