interest rate future

If it does continue, an interest rate futures contract is expected to be introduced.

The interest rate futures market suggests investors also expect another increase in early August.

In theory, an interest rate future is simple.

During that period the trade volume of agricultural, currency and interest rate futures more than tripled.

They are the world's most heavily traded short term interest rate futures contracts and extend up to ten years.

Interest rate futures markets suggest that traders see a slightly less than 50-50 chance the Fed will raise rates again.

No long interest rate future or option contract exists at present due to the lack of liquidity in the underlying cash bond market.

Interest rate futures, an indication of what investors think the Fed's future monetary policy decisions will be, were unchanged yesterday.

But interest rate futures have made a huge difference in the way financial markets function and perhaps in the way that the Government operates.

Now there are numerous other interest rate futures, as well as growing markets in options on such futures.

Interest rate futures dropped while foreign currencies advanced yesterday as some traders looked to the industrial nations to stabilize the dollar.

Jitters over the value of the dollar sent reverberations yesterday through the markets for precious metals and interest rate futures.

An interest rate future is a financial derivative (a futures contract) with an interest-bearing instrument as the underlying asset.

Treasury bonds and Eurodollars, the industry's largest interest rate futures, closed lower yesterday despite a round of rate increases.

The three-month euro D-mark interest rate future, which was introduced in 1989 has been an important source of trading activity from its inception.

Interest rate futures are used to hedge against the risk of that interest rates will move in an adverse direction, causing a cost to the company.

The news that the trade deficit broadened to $15.06 billion in February also sent foreign currency futures higher and interest rate futures sharply lower.

In 1981 the IMM introduced a eurodollar interest rate futures contract, its most successful contract to date.

"The Interest Rate Futures Market."

The global market for exchange-traded interest rate futures is notionally valued by the Bank for International Settlements at $5,794,200 million in 2005.

Contracts representing millions of dollars in short-term interest rate futures turn over every second in a cacophonous blur of hand signals and shouted orders.

For many equity index and interest rate futures contracts (as well as for most equity options), this happens on the third Friday of certain trading months.

"When You're Trading Interest Rate Futures, Ignorance is Risk."

Options on short-term interest rate futures, index based futures and cash settled futures are exempt from VAT.

In interest rate futures markets, it refers to the differential between the yield on a cash instrument and the cost of the funds necessary to buy the instrument.