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Credit Risk Climbs

U.S. company credit risk reaches six-week high on budget impasse.

By Mary Childs, Bloomberg | Updated on November 22, 2011

A benchmark gauge of U.S. corporate credit rise rose to the highest level in more than six weeks as lawmakers failed to agree on budget cuts and as yields on Spanish and Italian sovereign debt climbed.

The Markit CDX North America Investment Grade Index of credit default swaps, which investors use to hedge against losses on corporate debt or to speculate on creditworthiness, added 4.6 basis points to a mid-price of 140.5 basis points at 4:52 p.m. in New York, according to index administrator Markit Group Ltd. The cost of protecting U.S. government debt rose to the highest level in two months.

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