futuresthat areboughttoprotectagainstpossiblefuturelossescausedbychangesininterestrates:Interest-ratefuturesarecontractsof thefuturedeliveryofinterest-bearingsecurities.(Definition ofinterest rate futuresfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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interest rate futuresDuring that period the trade volume of agricultural, currency andinterestratefuturesmore than tripled.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When one enters into aninterestratefuturescontract (like a bond future), the trader has ability to eventually take delivery of the underlying asset.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Ininterestratefuturesmarkets, it refers to the differential between the yield on a cash instrument and the cost of the funds necessary to buy the instrument.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some of the more commonly day-traded financial instruments are stocks, options, currencies, and a host of futures contracts such as equity index futures,interestratefutures, and commodity futures.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/interest-rate-futures##
