Interest Rate Hedging/Hedge Any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
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- Minimize loss or risk; "diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks"; "hedge your bets"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn The practice of offsetting the price risk inherent in any cash market position by taking an equal but opposite position in the futures market. Hedgers use the futures markets to protect their business from adverse price changes. ...
www.agriwellness.org/WordDocLinks/Ag_BH_Terms2008.doc A strategy designed to reduce investment risk using call options, put options,short selling, or futures contracts. A hedge can help lock in existing profits. Its purpose is to reduce the potential volatility of a portfolio, by reducing the risk of loss.
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Interest Rate Swap
- An interest rate swap is a derivative in which one party exchanges a stream of interest payments for another party's stream of cash flows. Interest rate swaps can be used by hedgers to manage their fixed or floating assets and liabilities. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interest_rate_swap - A transaction between two parties, in which each agrees to exchange payments tied to different interest rates or indices for a specified period of ...
www.e-referencedesk.com/finance/mortgages/glossary/i/ - A transaction in which two counterparties exchange interest payment streams of differing character based on an underlying notional principal ...
www.bigbooster.com/paths/offshore-glossary.html - Is the contract whereby one party typically agrees to exchange a floating rate for a fixed coupon rate. There are many variations to this theme. Some of these other swaps can be cross border, fixed-for-fixed, or floating-for-floating. ...
www.oasismanagement.com/frames/glossary/i.html - This product allows you to swap the interest rate basis of an asset or liability from a floating rate to a fixed rate or vice versa. This is an off-balance sheet instrument involving no exchange of principal amounts at any stage.
www.fxcenterusa.com/us/definitions.asp - A binding agreement between counterparties to exchange periodic interest payments on some predetermined dollar principal, which is called the notional principal amount. For example, one party will pay fixed and receive variable.
biz.yahoo.com/glossary/bfglosi.html - An interest rate transaction where the parties agree that the Client swaps his payables or receivables, based on variable or fixed interest, for payables or receivables, based on fixed or variable interest.
https://www.kh.hu/publish/khb/en/interaktiv/interaktiv_elemek/fogalomtar.I.html - A swap in which the two counterparties agree to exchange interest rate flows. Typically, one party agrees to pay a fixed rate on a specified series of payment dates and the other party pays a floating rate that may be based on LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate) on those payment dates. ...
www.cftc.gov/educationcenter/glossary/glossary_ijk.html - an agreement to exchange fixed for floating interest rate streams (or vice versa) on a notional principal.
www.ihgplc.com/files/reports/ar2007/index.asp - A contract between two parties in which a party with a variable rate loan (from a third party) swaps it for a fixed rate loan, or in which the parties exchange payments if the variable rate goes above or below agreed upon thresholds. ...
www.jackadamo.com/glossary.htm - A contract with a bank whereby a company with fixed rate debt can swap the interest payments into floating rate, or vice versa.
www.bat.com/group/sites/UK__3MNFEN.nsf/vwPagesWebLive/DO76KFH5 - It is a contractual agreement entered into between two parties under which, each agrees to make periodic payments to the other for an agreed period of time based upon a notional amount of principal. It is a kind of a hedging technique.
www.religarefinvest.com/glossary.asp - A derivative in which two parties agree to exchange periodic interest payments. These payments are calculated on a “notional amount,” and no ...
https://www.first.wachovia.com/foundation/v/index.jsp - A contract between two or more firms in which interest payments are exchanged so that each participating firm saves on interest costs and gets a better balance between its cash inflows and outflows.
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