Sentences with phrase «rate swap contracts»

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More than US$ 500 trillion worth of contracts — everything from swaps and futures contracts, to home mortgages and student loans — were priced using LIBOR rates last year.

«Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner and predecessor Hank Paulson said they didn't bail out AIG to save its derivatives counterparties» from bad credit default swap contracts because if it would have asked these counterparties to «take a haircut,» credit - ratings agencies would have downgraded AIG.

As the RBA's operational target for monetary policy and the reference rate for OIS (overnight index swap) and other financial contracts, the cash rate is the risk - free interest rate benchmark for the Australian dollar.

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

The LIBOR is frequently the basis of investments including interest swap agreements (two parties agree to pay each other's interest based on an imaginary amount of money, or principal), bonds with a variable interest yield, and forward contracts (investors use these to hedge risk based on what they believe interest rates will be at a specific time in the future).

This portfolio invests in derivative instruments such as swaps, options, futures contracts, forward currency contracts, indexed and asset - backed securities, to be announced (TBAs) securities, interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, and certain exchange - traded funds that involve risks including liquidity, interest rate, market, currency, counterparty, credit and management risks, mispricing or improper valuation, low correlation with the underlying asset, rate, or index and could lose more than originally invested.

It gains exposure to asset classes by investing in more than 100 futures contracts, futures - related instruments, forwards and swaps, including, but not limited to, equity index futures and equity swaps; bond futures and swaps; interest rate futures and swaps; commodity futures, forwards and swaps; currencies and currency futures and forwards, either by investing directly in those Instruments, or indirectly by investing in the Subsidiary that invests in those Instruments.

We generally provided credit default swap protection on the most senior liabilities of structured finance transactions, and at inception of the contract our exposure generally had more subordination than needed to achieve triple - A ratings from credit rating agencies (referred to as «Super Triple - A» exposure).

Interest rate swaps are entered into to hedge the risks associated with fluctuations in interest rates or fair values of certain contracts.

The Company generally provided credit default swap protection on the most senior liabilities of structured finance transactions, and at inception of the contract its exposure generally has more subordination than needed to achieve triple - A ratings from credit rating agencies (referred to as «Super Triple - A» exposure).

The fund you linked to uses swap contracts, which I discuss in detail below, to hedge against fluctuations in the EUR / USD exchange rate.

mREITs typically manage and mitigate risk associated with their short - term borrowings through conventional, widely - used hedging strategies, including interest rate swaps, swaptions, interest rate collars, caps or floors and other financial futures contracts.

Swaps are customized contracts between two private parties to exchange a sequence of cash flows (such as interest rate payments) for a set period of time.

When you insure long - term risks (such as mortality) or issue financial derivatives (such as interest rate swaps or contracts on the future value of the S&P 500) the risks are not easy to understand.

Disputes arising out of hedging and derivative contracts including the mis - selling of interest rate swaps, forex swaps and commodity swaps.

mREITs typically manage and mitigate risk associated with their short - term borrowings through conventional, widely - used hedging strategies, including interest rate swaps, swaptions, interest rate collars, caps or floors and other financial futures contracts.