Interest rate swaps provide counter-parties with the opportunity to exchange fixed-rate and floating-rate cash flows. Large financial institutions, such as banks, commodity market participants and ...

Interest rate swaps and credit default swaps are sophisticated financial management techniques. Although their names are similar, these investment tools have little in common. Differences exist in the ...

Amidst pressures to enhance operational productivity and quality, American manufacturers also face challenges in selecting the most cost-effective means for financing immediate and long-term ...

An interest rate swap is a deal between two investors. One has his money in a product paying a fixed rate of interest, such as a government bond; the other in a variable rate instrument that pays out ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Interest rates have been a persistent challenge for ...

the fluctuating, variable rate of interest. If interest rates rise, as they did in the early years of this century, the bond issuer will never have to pay more than the agreed-upon fixed rate. But if ...

In October 2008, something happened that had never happened before. The United States (US) Treasury 30 year bond interest rate swap spread went negative, below the interest rates being paid on US ...

Put very simply, an interest rate swap occurs when a person or entity with debt makes a deal with a creditor in which that creditor will pay the other party’s variable rate debt. In the case of a ...