Our recent article, Swaps and Basis Trades Warn Of Mounting Liquidity Problems, touched on negative interest rate swap spreads as an omen of potential liquidity problems. To stay on the topic of ...

Garrett Baldwin writes: It's something you may not even have heard of, but the massive financial burden of interest rate swaps is pressuring city budgets and pinching taxpayers more every year. But ...

An interest rate swap is an agreement to exchange interest payments from a financial instrument for interest payments from another financial instrument. This usually involves trading future interest ...