Personally,
I find swap rates more comparable across countries than sovereign obligations.
Not exact matches
TrueEx, which was
founded by famed trader Sahil Hirani in 2010, already facilitates trading for interest
rates swaps.
You don't have to deal with
finding and
swapping SIM cards, and you don't have to worry about megabytes per minute: Skyroam charges a flat daily
rate.
Using daily contract closing bid - ask midpoints for 26 equity futures, 14 interest
rate swaps, 31 currency exchange
rates and 16 commodity futures during January 1990 through April 2015, they
find that: Keep Reading
If interest
rates have fallen since you took out your fixed -
rate mortgage, you may
find it's worth refinancing, which involves
swapping your current mortgage for one with a lower interest
rate.
Suppose you own a corporate bond
rated BBB (lower - investment - grade quality) that is yielding 7.00 % and you
find a triple - A-
rated (higher - investment - grade quality) corporate bond that is yielding 6.70 %.1 You could
swap into the superior - credit, triple - A-
rated bond by sacrificing only 30 basis points (one basis point is 1 / 100th of one percent, or.01 %).
For me, with a middle view (bring interest
rate swaps to exchanges first and see how they work, then try other instruments that are less liquid), I
found the exchange to be a waste of precious time, but it was revealing of the attitudes of those in the Treasury.