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家园 【文摘】CDS和通用汽车破产

刚看到一篇短文。

Role of credit default swaps debated in GM's bankruptcy risk

文章提到GM避免破产现在面临的两大困难:持有CDS的对冲基金,和如何让九成的债主签字。

About $2.7 billion of the $28 billion in existing GM bonds are backed by such swaps, a form of insurance that investors buy to protect against defaults or other adverse "credit events." In GM's case, these swaps would presumably entitle large institutional bondholders to be paid in full in the event of a GM default. Therefore, those big bondholders would likely keep their bonds and watch GM go bankrupt rather than trade the bonds for stock in a new GM that's 89% owned by Uncle Sam and the UAW.

Or so the logic goes.

27亿美元的债券有CDS担保,基金们有让GM破产的冲动。

But Tim Backshall, chief strategist for Credit Derivatives Research, doesn't see credit default swaps triggering a GM bankruptcy. Yes, Backshall told me, there are $2.7 billion of GM swaps outstanding, "but that's not quite as hairy as it sounds."

If speculators were trying to make money by trading swaps to bet on the odds of a GM bankruptcy, Backshall said, they would have cashed out long ago. And depending on the premiums paid for the remaining swaps, investors might not have much to gain from a default. Maybe a stock-for-bonds swap might be attractive, especially if GM and the U.S. Treasury sweeten the current offer, which GM said is equivalent to about 11 cents on the dollar.

对此有人不同意,认为通用的CDS价格近来一直很高,即使通用破产,靠买卖CDS也赚不到多少钱。还不如债转股来的划算。

A much greater obstacle to completing a bond exchange by the June 1 deadline for GM to prove its viability and preserve its lifeline of federal loans, Backshall said, is the sheer logistical challenge of rounding up hundreds of small investors to trade GM bonds for future equity.

"I think it's crazy," he said. "To expect the bondholders to find every mom and pop that has a GM bond and get 90% of them to agree is, I think, incredibly aggressive."

而另一个困难是让多达九成的人签字同意,在实际操作上也很难做到。

最后,

Still, there remains a possibility that bankruptcy can be averted. "There's going to be a better deal for bondholders somehow," Backshall said.

In other words, there might yet be an offer they can't refuse.

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