{"id":9911,"date":"2009-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"cost-of-protecting-japan-govt-debt-hits-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2009\/cost-of-protecting-japan-govt-debt-hits-record-high.html","title":{"rendered":"Cost of protecting Japan govt debt hits record high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; The cost of protecting Japanese government debt against default has risen sharply as political uncertainty and worries about the nation&#8217;s fiscal position grew after data this week highlighted the depth of recession in the world&#8217;s second-biggest economy. <\/p>\n<p>But traders say the market is quite illiquid and dominated by foreign investors such as hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese players do not believe the government would default on its debt and seldom buy protection for their holdings of Japanese sovereign bonds. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/afxnewslimited\/feeds\/afx\/2009\/02\/18\/afx6063642.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; The cost of protecting Japanese government debt against default has risen sharply as political uncertainty and worries about the nation&#8217;s fiscal position grew after data this week highlighted the depth of recession in the world&#8217;s second-biggest economy. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4602,7737,4513,7421,779,7738,241,7736,536,7735,7739],"class_list":["post-9911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-economy","tag-fiscal-position","tag-forbes","tag-foreign-investors","tag-government-debt","tag-japanese-players","tag-japanese-government","tag-political-uncertainty","tag-recession","tag-sovereign-bonds","tag-worries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}