Discover how interest rate and currency swaps help companies manage interest rate exposure and secure favorable borrowing ...

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 ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who has been working in ...

In late 2007, as the U.S. subprime mortgage market began rapidly going south, leading to the second-worst economic collapse in U.S. history, economists and financial writers began writing about the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...