Financial News
Interest-Rate Futures . . . . . . .
350
Application
Hedging with Interest-Rate
Futures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
352
Organization of Trading in Financial
Futures Markets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
The Globalization of Financial Futures
Markets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Explaining the Success of Futures
Markets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
FYI
The Hunt Brothers and the Silver
Crash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Application
Hedging Foreign Exchange
Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
357
Stock Index Futures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
358
FYI
ProgramTrading and Portfolio
Insurance: Were They to Blame for the
Stock Market Crash of 1987? . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Stock Index Futures Contracts . . . . . . . . . . 359
Financial News
Stock Index Futures . . . . . . . .
360
Application
Hedging with Stock Index
Futures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
361
Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
361
Stock Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Futures Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Application
Hedging with Futures
Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
368
Factors Affecting the Prices of Option
Premiums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
SWAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
370
Interest-Rate Swap Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Application
Hedging with Interest-Rate
Swaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
371
Advantages of Interest-Rate Swaps . . . . . . . 372
Disadvantages of Interest-Rate Swaps . . . . . 373
Financial Intermediaries in Interest-Rate
Swaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Credit Derivatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
374
Credit Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Credit Swaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Credit-Linked Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Application
Lessons from the Subprime
Financial Crisis: When Are Financial
Derivatives Likely to Be a Worldwide
Time Bomb? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
375
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
377
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
377
Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
378
Quantitative Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
378
Web Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
379
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