Tuesday, Jan 15, 2008
A recovery rate of 3%? In your dreams bosos!
FT.com: Insight: The fire threatens credit insurance
The notional value of CDS contracts globally is $45,000bn. That represents real underlying credits of about $5,000bn. The maximum rate of corporate defaults was about 3 per cent in the 1990s recession. However, corporate speculative grade bond defaults run as high as 10 per cent. A weighted default ratio of 5 per cent (3 per cent for investment grade and 10 per cent for sub-investment grade) would mean that credits with a par value of $250bn would default. Assuming an asset recovery ratio of 30 per cent, the hit would be $175bn.
45 trillion dollars!
Posted by lvmreader @ 07:17 PM (513 views) Add Comment
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1. lvmreader said...
Predicted by LVMReader over 4 months ago.
2. stillthinking said...
The article states/reckons that 'we reckon global liquidity is set to shrink by 8-10 per cent'. That means deflation as well.
I am obviously missing something here.
3. lvmreader said...
@StillThinking,
We are talking about the end of the Western Financial System as we know it. CDOs backed by ABS may get 30% back when they fail, but CDOs backed by Credit Card debt are worthless. Nada. Rien. Zip.
$250bn is a hopeful "Alice in Wonderland" figure. Try $1 trillion for starters and then assume leverage of 10x and a 3% recovery.
That is more likely.