FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES
Given the greater demand for the reduction of interest-
rate risk, commodity exchanges such as the Chicago Board of Trade recognized that
if they could develop a product that would help investors and financial institutions
to protect themselves from, or to
hedge
, interest-rate risk, then they could make
profits by selling this new instrument.
Futures contracts
, in which the seller agrees
to provide a certain standardized commodity to the buyer on a specific future date
at an agreed-on price, had been around for a long time. Officials at the Chicago
Board of Trade realized that if they created futures contracts in financial instruments,
which are called
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