Last month, India's central bank took action to reverse that, announcing it would introduce 10-year
interest rate futures contracts by the end of the year.
traded
interest rate futures contracts already cleared by NYPC, fixed income cash and repo trades cleared by the DTCC's Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) and interest rate swaps cleared by LCH.
Similarly, it is believed that yields on short-term
interest rate futures contracts might rise on speculation that policy makers would lift their overnight interest rate by 0.
Prices for US
interest rate futures contracts showed dealers scaling back bets on further rate cuts, implying no more than a 50-50 chance the Fed will lower rates again in December, down from a perceived 64 per cent on Tuesday night.
For more than a decade, trading volumes in these contracts remained miniscule in comparison with other
interest rate futures contracts, such as 3-month eurodollar and long-term Treasury securities.
Fed funds futures are
interest rate futures contracts that are based on the monthly average fed funds rate for each month traded.
Moreover, as suggested by implied yields on
interest rate futures contracts, market participants had come to expect that the Federal Reserve would ease the federal funds rate as much as 50 basis points by year-end and that the Bank of Japan might ease call rates again but by a smaller increment (roughly 25 basis points).
Prior to the introduction of swaps, the principal instruments for hedging interest rate risk were
interest rate futures contracts.
Although numerous uses of
interest rate futures contracts exist for life insurers, this analysis will be limited to three: portfolio management, future cash flow management and life policy management.
Understand primary
interest rate futures contracts and the concepts that underlie their use.
Dan said, "More than 30 years ago, the CBOT was the first exchange to trade
interest rate futures contracts.
The pound rallied against the dollar and the euro after the minutes were released while
interest rate futures contracts fell further, reflecting a greater than even chance of an increase in the second half of this year.
