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Children's profiles must be private by default with their location, camera and microphone turned off, and it should be easy for minors to block or mute users.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
The riskier bond pools have been much better performers despite facing a higher risk of default and potentially greater price sensitivity as market conditions evolve.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Our default should be to preserve joints, not replace them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
A zoo spokeswoman said the error was "due to our default naming convention in our system", but it was "quickly changed".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Within a few months, Lippmann’s credit default swap position had to be marked down by $30 million.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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“We’re on our own,” Chatzky noted, “but defaults are coming.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
When equipment is bought on credit, it usually doubles as collateral, or the asset a lender can seize if the loan defaults.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Other countries have fallen victim to debt spirals, where high levels of debt lead investors to demand higher interest rates, in turn fueling more borrowing until eventually a country defaults.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Some tracking the private-credit sector say that without these loan modifications, the climbing defaults in the industry would be higher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
In 1998, AIG FP entered the new market for corporate credit default swaps: It sold insurance to banks against the risk of defaults by huge numbers of investment-grade public corporations.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Zambia defaulted on its sovereign debt in 2020, with its debt-to-GDP ratio peaking at 124 percent in 2021, and later completed an IMF-supported programme.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
However, China defaulted on these bonds in 1938.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
He was being summoned because he was being sued by Midland Credit Management for $3,466.63 in defaulted credit card debt.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Radford’s current owner, Hackman Capital Partners, defaulted on $1.1 billion of bondholder debt and turned the property over to lenders led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
In August it leapt to 25.44 percent, and by the end of the year it stood at 37.7 percent—more than a third of the pool of borrowers had defaulted on their loans.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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The cost of insuring against its loans and bonds defaulting hit a multiyear high this summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Those who cannot afford higher premiums might be forced to sell their home or risk defaulting on their mortgage, according to a report by the Consumer Federation of America.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
The bonds are investment grade, first and foremost, so the risk of issuers defaulting is relatively low.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Starting in June 2025, with the pause having ended nine months prior, borrowers began defaulting again for the first time since the pandemic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Now, in February 2007, subprime loans were defaulting in record numbers, financial institutions were less steady every day, and no one but him seemed to recall what he’d said and done.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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