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Defaults on federal student loans rose to 6.7% last year from 5.2% a year earlier, the highest default rate since 1998.
Several options can help if you're struggling to pay student loans 2009
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Defaults on consumer mortgages, auto loans and bank cards declined in November and December from a year ago.
Bank Profits Strengthen as Loan Losses Reversed John Shipman 2011
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The Journal encourages the idea that the threat of a debt default might help force entitlement reform The Weekend Interview with Stanley Druckenmiller: What if the U.S. Treasury Defaults?
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Defaults defined as bonds that missed payments are down to only $2.1 billion from $2.8 billion in 2010.
Janet Tavakoli: 2011: The Year 60 Minutes Misled Americans About Municipal Bonds Janet Tavakoli 2011
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Defaults defined as bonds that missed payments are down to only $2.1 billion from $2.8 billion in 2010.
Janet Tavakoli: 2011: The Year 60 Minutes Misled Americans About Municipal Bonds Janet Tavakoli 2011
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Regulators FSA Says U.K. Banks Should Test for Sovereign Defaults LONDON—The U.K.'s financial regulator broke ranks with colleagues in Europe, urged banks to include the risk of sovereign-debt restructuring in the bloc of euro-using nations in their regular stress tests.
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Mr. Waibel's book "Sovereign Defaults Before International Courts and Tribunals," says that nonparticipating creditors in Argentina's coercive 2005 debt restructuring—at 30 cents on the dollar—filed 140 individual lawsuits and 18 class-action suits in the U.S. and obtained judgments totaling $6.4 billion.
'Voluntary' Greece Deal Seen Overstated Stephen Fidler 2012
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To put the examples in the article "Raters Fail to See Defaults Coming" Money & Investing, Aug. 12 into perspective, all of the sovereign foreign-currency defaults cited took place while the sovereign was rated BB- or below for the preceding year.
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Defaults and bankruptcies did, in fact, rise this year, but not on the scale anticipated by the doomsayers.
Muni Bonds: A Disaster That Wasn't Kelly Nolan 2011
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Defaults defined as bonds that missed payments are down to only $2.1 billion from $2.8 billion in 2010.
Janet Tavakoli: 2011: The Year 60 Minutes Misled Americans About Municipal Bonds Janet Tavakoli 2011
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