The investment seeks to hedge interest rate movements arising from rising long-term interest rates, and to benefit from market stress when fixed income volatility increases, while providing the ...

(Bloomberg) -- The Iran war has clouded the outlook for inflation and economic growth across the globe and, in turn, where interest rates might be heading. The uncertainty is stirring volatility in ...

Lynn Strongin Dodds assesses the ISDA report on the impact the US, EU and UK’s changing monetary policies had on the IRD landscape. It has been a busy time for interest rate derivative (IRD) traders ...

Rising Japanese bond yields have encouraged global investors and companies to increase their hedging of Japanese interest rate risk for the first time in years, banks and consultants say, ahead of ...

OIS rates are a crucial indicator reflecting expectations for interest rate changes, and they are the principal tool for ...

Traders are piling back into a popular hedge fund strategy that bets on US Treasuries outperforming interest rate swaps. The so-called swap spread widener trade — which uses derivatives to wager that ...

A money market hedge is a technique used to lock in the value of a foreign currency transaction in a company’s domestic ...

Hedge funds secured a victory in Washington after a top Wall Street regulator said it would let a Japanese firm clear yen interest rates swaps for US customers. Trade groups had asked the Commodity ...