单词 | interest-rate futures |
释义 | interest-rate futures A form of financial futures that enables investors, portfolio managers, borrowers, etc., to obtain protection or speculate 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 the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange, 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. See: |
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