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interest rate option

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interest rate option
An option contract on interest-bearing securities or on a futures contract on interest-bearing securities. These options are generally used as a means to manage the risk of a bond portfolio.


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Such a scheme did appear to work in Japan in the 1990s, after it had exhausted the interest rate options.
And now that you have so many banks that assess risk differently, the 30-year, high interest rate option is often all that''s available to prospective home owners.
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