The phrase "a measure of default" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to finance, risk assessment, or evaluating the likelihood of defaulting on a loan or obligation.
Example: "The bank uses a measure of default to assess the creditworthiness of potential borrowers."
Alternatives: "a gauge of default" or "an indicator of default".
The biggest increases in debt relative to income, a measure of default risk, were in high latent-demand neighbourhoods, the study says.
Credit-default-swap spreads for Sweden's big banks, a measure of default risk, are significantly lower than for many of their peers, suggesting that their borrowing costs are much lower, too.
They are also a measure of the default rate of return you can get if you decide to leave your money in cash instead of investing — if interest rates rise, other investments become less attractive.
The company also reported its annual net charge-off rate a measure of credit default, for U.S. credit cards rose to 7.82% in January from 7.71% in December.
Spreads on credit default swaps, a measure of the risks of default widened on both countries.The spread between Greek and German debt hit a new all-time high, and the movement in Portuguese yields is somewhat disconcerting.
Based on first-quarter trends, the 2001 default ratio, a measure of corporate financial weakness that divides defaults by the number of corporate debt issuers, would be the worst since the 1991 recession year.
Banks' credit-default swaps, a measure of the cost of insuring their debt against default, barely blipped up.Still guaranteed?There are two explanations for why investors were not gripped by fear.
On Thursday, the largest United States banks being reviewed for downgrade showed little movement in either their stock prices or their credit default swap levels, a measure of the cost of insuring against a firm's default.
Past breakups of currency regimes led to messy transitions, often involving bank runs, capital flight, emigration and some measure of default.
Steven C. Miller, managing director of Standard & Poor's LCD, a unit of the rating agency that monitors creditworthiness of floating rate loans, said default rates, a measure of how many companies have stopped paying interest, have been declining.
The spreads on Indonesian credit-default swaps, a measure of investors' perception of the riskiness of the country, soared to over seven percentage points.
