The World’s Safest Sovereign Debt
Implied Ratings are calculated using a proprietary model developed by CMA and fed with CDS pricing data
from CMA DataVision.
Source: CMA DataVision Global Sovereign Credit Risk Report Q1-2009
-
Recent Entries - Greek Government Bond Market
- Links
- Sterling Today
- Sovereign Risk Jolts Markets
- Monthly Trading Volumes in Greek Government Bonds
- Eurostat Statement on Greece’s Use of Derivatives
- The Bank Lending Channel Revisited
- The Future of Public Debt
- Systemic Risk: How To Deal With It?
- Links
- Papers => FRBNY
- Links
- Scariest Chart EVER: Loss Severity, Subprime First-Lien
- Google CDS => AAA
- Empty Creditor Claim
- Links
- Quotes of the Day
- Fed’s MBS Program
- Variability in Nucleus Accumbens Activity Mediates Age-Related Suboptimal Financial Risk Taking
- Links
- Links
- Worth Reading
- Links
- Scorecard: Gross National Savings (% of GDP)
- Withdrawal and Expulsion from the EU and EMU: Some Reflections
- Review of the Differentiated Nature and Scope of Financial Regulation
- Link of the Day
- Summary of a Workshop on Recent Advances in Modelling Systemic Risk Using Network Analysis
- Link
- Links
- The Mechanics of a Graceful Exit: Interest on Reserves and Segmentation in the Federal Funds Market
- [Update] Why Are Banks Holding So Many Excess Reserves?
- Basel Committee: Consultative Proposals to Strengthen the Resilience of the Banking Sector
- The World’s Riskiest Sovereign Debt (Update)
- The World’s Safest Sovereign Debt (Update)
- Liquidity Hoarding and Interbank Market Spreads: The Role of Counterparty Risk
- Sovereign and Bank Credit Risk Premia during 2008-09
- Macro Stress Tests and Crises: What Can We Learn?
- Dollar Appreciation in 2008: Safe Haven, Carry Trades, Dollar Shortage and Overhedging
- Interbank Offered Rate: Effects of the Financial Crisis on the Information Content of the Fixing
More: List of All Posts
-
Blogs A Dash of Insight
Requisite Investor Skills: Think Critically and Accept New Evidence
Critical thinking helps in any field. I have the pleasure of participating in a discussion list that explores many issues where critical thinking is a focus. The members have a ... [Link]
The Epicurean Dealmaker
The Downside of Anger
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.— Cato the ElderAnger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.— Lord HalifaxAnyone can become angry — that ... [Link]
Money Supply
Carney on eating Canadian asset cake
Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada, today spoke on Canada’s response to the financial crisis. In a question and answer period after the speech, Mr Carney said (via ... [Link]
The Aleph Blog
The Rules, Part IV
Okay, here is tonight’s rule: Governments that scam the asset markets (and their citizens) take all manner of half measures to defend failed policies before undertaking structural reform. (This includes ... [Link]
Le blog d'éconoclaste
J'hésite
Chers lecteurs, mon temps et mon énergie sont comptés et j'ai envie de parler de trois sujets, mais ne peut dans l'immédiat en traiter qu'un. Quelles sont vos préférences? J'hésite ... [Link]
contact
jck [at]
aleablog [dot] com
March 25th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
sovereign cds: the greatest ponzi scheme nobody wants to acknowledge
think about it…the stuff trades a lot…but if you’re left holding the bad, you get nothing.
that is not a way to hedge. that is a way to scam.
March 26th, 2009 at 2:07 am
where is UK ? not even AA+ ?
March 26th, 2009 at 7:42 am
the UK is 13th, implied rating AA+
March 26th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Are you sure CPDs are stated in per cent (way too high) and not in bps (bit low?)?
March 26th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Yep, they are in %, i.e the probability of sovereign default occurring at any time over a 5 year period.
NOT an annual hazard rate, that would be around 1.1% for the U.S.
March 26th, 2009 at 10:38 am
So how does this then justify a AAA rating? Higher recovery rate?
March 26th, 2009 at 11:43 am
If we were to go only by the hazard rate that’s definitely not AAA, clear, but implied ratings should be derived from expected losses, not just hazard rates, so with a high recovery rate it could be AAA.
this is a CMA proprietary model, so I don’t know exactly how the rating is derived.
March 27th, 2009 at 2:08 am
Ouch! Where’d Australia and Canada come out?
March 27th, 2009 at 2:32 am
Australia is at 14th, same rating as the UK
No CDS market for Canada for now, so no implied rating.
March 27th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Thanks! 14th surprises me for a nation with a pre-funded retirement system, natural wealth in commodities, easily defensible borders and a relatively corruption-free legal system – but I’m too enamored with my book, I guess. Still, the same as the UK?
March 27th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
I am also very surprised at the Aussie position.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:56 pm
I haven’t done this stuff but I would look first a state’s ability to collect further income when needed. The USA can print more money if they are not afraid of inflation. Norway can sell more oil, which doesn’t cause inflation. Oil is thus better than a printing machine.
Australians already have some private debt which limits government’s ability to increase taxes, if a financial meltdown hits it. Current account is negative. It is an exporter of commodities (but not oil), thus a global meltdown would hit her hard.