Floating Price
Swaps are a kind of contract that allows one party to trade the proceeds from an investment it holds with the proceeds from an investment held by some other party. You don't trade the assets. You just trade the money they generate.
A typical swap usually involves one party that has a fixed-rate security (like a bond) and another that has a floating-rate security. The fixed-rate people want to take on a little more risk, so they have a chance at a bigger pay day. Meanwhile, the floating-rate people perceive their own risk as already too high. They want the security of the fixed-rate payments. So they work out a swap.
The term "floating price" refers to the floating side of this arrangement. When the swap is set up, the value of the transaction’s floating leg isn’t known. It will move around based on market forces. Thus, floating price.
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one day a guy was holding a swap turned a
corner wasn't looking where he was going then glam o
he ran into an option What came of it was
a super hybrid type of security were in a slop
like i swap you so many dollars for so many
euros is tacked onto an option You want the ability
to pay off your loan either in us dollars or
in euros assuming they still exist when your loan comes
due That whole brexit thing that issue have the option
to swap the flavor of payments you're making for the
hundred grand You borrowed no it's houses play out well
When the bond was issued one dollar bought you one
euro and the interest rate was eight percent So you
paid eight grand a year to rent that hundred for
ten years at which point you're going to pay it
all off simple but after five years the exchange rates
have drifted massively Magic fairy dust was sprinkled by wizards
all over europe They beat back the thirty two hour
work week Corruption unions and economic misery wrought by not
being able to compete with china russia in africa and
now amazingly the euro is a much stronger currency than
the u s dollar that's kind of a fictional story
here that we'll make enough In fact one euro buys
you two u s dollars like it when the euro
was first put out there So if you holding the
swap shin on the interest payment flavor of the hundred
grand you borrowed if you so choose you can pay
that eight grand in euros that is instead of the
eight thousand dollars a year in interest you can pay
for thousand euros It's almost a ziff your interest rate
was cut in half That's not really it's a value
is the same it's just the number of units were
cut have theirs You know that works And if you
live in europe and work in europe and we're paid
in euros Well it really is like a roman holiday
of interest rates of just want to focus on the
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