default
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Insurers who have this double exposure earn income from their shares and interest on their loans to the funds, but can take deeper losses if enough of the loans in the fund default at once.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026
Unlike corporate debt, issuers can suspend preferred dividend payments without triggering a default.
From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026
But the government must satisfy some meaningful evidentiary standard at the border before it may override the default rule and strip an LPR of the protections of permanent residency.
From Slate • Jun. 23, 2026
Right now, more than 9 million borrowers are in default on their loans and millions more are severely behind.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 18, 2026
By January 2007, in their tiny $30 million fund, they owned $110 million in credit default swaps on the double-A tranche of asset-backed CDOs.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing default
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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The Great Depression and The New Deal
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