commodity swap

"Commodities swaps are more efficient than trying to trade individual futures," he said.

What appeared to be complex commodities swaps were actually disguised loans to Enron.

In a commodity swap, an airline might agree to pay a refiner a fixed rate for oil.

The vast majority of commodity swaps involve crude oil.

The bonds serve as collateral for the fund's investments in a form of derivative security called a commodity swap.

The company filed a lawsuit to recover nearly $1 billion related to a commodities swap with Enron.

Agricultural division is focused on assisting farmers with hedging and commodity swap to protect their production and livelihood.

A Commodity swap is similar to a Fixed-Floating Interest rate swap.

At that time the agency indicated that the commodity swaps were futures contracts and should be traded on a futures exchange.

CBS is also the only financial company that currently provides both physical commodity and commodity swaps in Australia.

A commodity swap is an agreement whereby a floating (or market or spot) price is exchanged for a fixed price over a specified period.

The bank, which deals in commodity swaps between Russian and the West, had experienced "difficulties with exporters getting the supply product delivered on the specified date."

A fuel hedge contract allows a large fuel consuming company to establish a fixed or capped cost, via a commodity swap or option.

Today's Columns The decision by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission not to regulate deals known as commodity swaps is opening up a new financial market.

Commodity swaps like this, and variations that lately include some deal-sweetening hard currency or reliable promises of needed future commodities, are increasingly the case among the hardier Soviet entrepreneurs.

By limiting these risks, bankers said, the commodity swap could become a new route back into the capital markets for many businesses and countries that have been closed out because of debt problems.

The Bank provides an array of financial risk management products including foreign exchange swaps, currency conversions, interest rate swaps, interest rate caps and floors, and commodity swaps.

The five generic types of swaps, in order of their quantitative importance, are: interest rate swaps, currency swaps, credit swaps, commodity swaps and equity swaps.

For instance, in the $600 billion market for currency and commodity swaps, the question that the commission will soon be facing is: When is a swap a futures contract, if at all?

The agency took no action to exempt other "hybrid" instruments, like interest-rate, foreign exchange and commodity swaps and certain futures activity in offshore oil markets where the primary participants are large institutional investors.

The range of financial products includes Foreign Exchange, Commodity Swaps, Australian-International CFD's and Equity, Futures, Options, Superannuation Funds and Bonds.

A commodity swap is a financial instrument that provides produces and end-users of commodities with the ability to hedge their commodity risk in local weights, measures and seasons without having to commit produce to the contract.

Banking attorneys say that the C.F.T.C. has begun an investigation of the Chase commodity swaps and is likely to charge that such swaps constitute illegal off-exchange futures contracts and must be shut down.

Commodity Derivatives: BNP Paribas' Commodity Derivatives team helps clients hedge their exposure to commodity risk though the structuring and sale of commodity futures and OTC commodity swaps.

The C.F.T.C. decision on July 17 not to regulate commodity swaps removes a cloud that had been hanging over the market since December 1987, when the commission warned that these deals could be considered illegal futures or commodity options.