Germany and France have called on the European Union to consider banning speculative trading in credit default swaps and set up a compulsory register of derivatives trading

New powers for European regulators to ban or restrict credit default swaps on a European Union-wide basis could be on the table as EU officials in Brussels respond to political pressure to crack down on speculative trading

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EU probe into the sovereign credit default swap market finds 'no conclusive evidence' that trading activity drove up funding costs for European Union member states

On the day I took this photo, and these photos, I also bought some classical CDs, and I can report that second hand classical CDs, of the decent but not stellar sort, can now cost as little as 20p.  Yes indeed.  Neil the Classical CD Barrow Man who plies his trade in Lower Marsh sold me these: The first of the Brahms song CDs would have been worth the entire price.  It features the ...

The measures to be unveiled on Thursday hand watchdogs power to restrict bets on commodity derivatives and impose significant curbs on high frequency trading

Sources close to the EU's policymaking process reveal that current thinking on regulating Credit Default Swap (CDS) trading is limited to sovereign not corporate debt. Regulation, the sources said, would be restricted to "insurable interest," essentially meaning that only those who own the underlying bond can take out insurance on it. The EU, "driven by France and to a lesser ex...

A CHARITY shop in Nantwich is appealing for CDs after the Christmas rush left it with none.

Simply stated a credit-default swap, or CDS, is a way for the owner of an asset like a bond to buy an insurance policy to protect themselves in the event the issuer of that bond defaults. But, because the CDS market is unregulated, there is $60 trillion of so in these instruments that are not only purchased by actual owners of the debt, but by speculators betting that the issuing entity will indee...

Lower Marsh, just beyond Waterloo Station from me, is one of my favourite London streets. It has carts loaded up with goodies from vans, and amongst these goodies are classical CDs sold by a bloke called Neil. A few yards due west from where Neil plies his trade, there is Gramex, a regular shop, which also sells an abundance of classical CDs. These CDs cost far less than downloads from the interne...