单词 | interest-rate futures |
释义 | interest-rate futures interest-rate futures A form of financial futures that enables investors, portfolio managers, borrowers, etc., to obtain protection against future movements in interest rates. Interest-rate futures also enable dealers to speculate on these movements. In the UK, interest-rate futures are dealt in on London’s LIFFE exchange (now part of ICE Futures Europe), using contracts for three-month sterling, eurodollars, euros, etc., in the short term and long gilts, US Treasury bonds, euro bonds, etc., in the long term. For long gilts, for example, the standard contract is for £50,000 of nominal value and the tick size is 0.01% of the nominal value. Seehedge. |
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