Interest rate swaps are used by institutions and businesses to manage cash flows and interest rate exposure. Swaps involve the exchange of cash flows between two parties, with an intermediary ...

Options generally leave a borrower with more interest rate variability than a swap, but less risk than having all of the borrower’s debt floating, and can be an appropriate alternative.

Some companies, though, have such a tight cash flow they can’t take the chance that rates will increase, so they opt to fix their rates and take the unknown out of the equation. Derivatives are one of ...

Spreads on U.S. interest rate swaps over Treasuries tightened or turned more negative on Monday as long-term investors hedged their exposure in the swaps market to position for lower interest ...

The volume-weighted average rate of the benchmark overnight repo traded in the interbank market, considered the best indicator of general cash conditions, surged to 1.9636% on Tuesday, the highest ...

A Basic 60/40: A minimalist portfolio composed of 60% in an S&P 500 index exchange-traded fund and 40% in a total bond market ETF would currently pay out about 2.6%, based on the SEC yield of each ...