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Credit Suisse CDS blowing up with an implied default probability of almost 50% 👀

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Wow !!!

How to arrive at that probability 👇

P = 1 - e^[(-S*t)/( 1-R)]

(Risk-neutral default probability following Hull & White (2000))

R is the recovery rate and equal to 0.4 in our case

S is the spread and equal to 0.0766

t=5 and represents time to maturity

-> P ≈ 47%