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The IMM dates are the four quarterly dates of each year which certain money market and Foreign Exchange futures contracts and option contracts use as their scheduled maturity date or termination date. The dates are the third Wednesday of March, June, September and December (i.e., between the 15th and 21st, whichever such day is a Wednesday).
For futures contracts specifying physical delivery, the delivery month is the month in which the seller must deliver, and the buyer must accept and pay for, the underlying. [1] For contracts specifying cash settlement, the delivery month is the month of a final mark-to-market. The exact dates of acceptable delivery vary considerably and will be ...
There is a wide range of fixed income derivative products: options, swaps, futures contracts as well as forward contracts. The most widely traded kinds are: Credit default swaps; Interest rate swaps; Inflation swaps; Bond futures on 2/10/30-year government bonds; Interest rate futures on 90-day interbank interest rates; Forward rate agreements
The last full cycle of rate increases occurred between June 2004 and June 2006 as rates steadily rose from 1.00% to 5.25%. The target rate remained at 5.25% for over a year, until the Federal Reserve began lowering rates in September 2007.
The yield on 30-year Treasury bonds is around 4.25 percent, as of September 2024. When a Treasury bond is issued, the coupon rate stays fixed for the life of the bond, but the bond’s price can ...
The 30-year bond yield rose 5.7 basis points to 4.6052%. The 2-year note yield, which typically moves in step with interest rate expectations for the Federal Reserve, rose 5.9 basis points to 4. ...
A short-term interest rate (STIR) future is a futures contract that derives its value from the interest rate at maturation. Common short-term interest rate futures are Eurodollar, Euribor, Euroyen, Short Sterling and Euroswiss, which are calculated on LIBOR at settlement, with the exception of Euribor which is based on Euribor and Euroyen which is based on TIBOR.
Today's 30-Year Treasury Bond auction, the long bond auction, managed to look better than yesterday's 10-year Treasury Note auction. Yesterday's tone looked as though it was going to set a dismal ...