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F1 says the decision to press ahead with Qatar and Abu Dhabi, which was always the default option, has been taken because the situation in the two countries has not "negatively developed" in recent months.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Investors use credit default swaps to hedge existing exposure to an issuer, or to express a view on its credit risk without necessarily holding its debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Today, his pioneering self-marketing model is the default for comics relying on TikTok, Instagram and podcasts as much as their stage work to build followings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
The trick, she says, is to make the healthy choice the default.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
No one had as yet bought credit default swaps on the double-A piece of a CDO, which meant there wasn’t likely to be a liquid market for them.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Private credit bonuses are expected to be flat to down 7.5% amid investor fears of rising defaults, according to Johnson Associates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
In private credit, which has been pressured by investor fears of rising defaults, bonuses are expected to be flat to down 7.5%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Google's omnipresent search engine now defaults to AI summaries of a person's query, and that hit the number of advertisements it was able to sell during the quarter.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
A recession followed, but a mild one based on history, with AI debt not systemic and some tech-related defaults.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
The defaults mounted, the bonds universally crashed, and the CDOs composed of the bonds followed.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Daniil Medvedev was defaulted from the China Open after hitting a spectator in the face with a ball during his semi-final against Novak Djokovic.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
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
Many of the mortgages defaulted, creating a foreclosure crisis that threatened to drag blocks back down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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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Two years ago, again at Wimbledon, it appeared officials were considering defaulting Medvedev for an outburst towards umpire Eva Asderaki-Moore.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Plans also call for eliminating teacher-student staff ratios, defaulting caps to the licensing requirements of each state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
As for the Neo, Luria told MarketWatch that Apple saw “a need to expand its addressable market and engage with younger consumers that were defaulting into Chromebooks and low-end PCs.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
Terekhova said in an interview that the attacks have put her business at risk of defaulting on its loans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Mobile home buyers were defaulting on their loans, their mobile homes were being repossessed, and the people who had lent them money were receiving fractions of the original loans.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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