NEW YORK, May 10 (Reuters) - The cost of insuring exposure to U.S. government debt rose to fresh highs on Wednesday, as President Joe Biden and top lawmakers remained deadlocked in talks over raising ...

The credit quality of an entity is essential information that reflects that entity’s financial health and its ability to meet debt obligations. Credit quality can be expressed as a credit score, but ...

The assessment of default risk is also critical in the valuation of corporate bonds and credit derivatives such as basket-default swaps. There is an important distinction between default risk under ...

We develop a mixed-frequency, tree-based, gradient-boosting model designed to assess the default risk of privately held firms in real time. The model uses data from publicly-traded companies to ...