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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to pay off your loan either in us dollars or

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due That whole brexit thing that issue have the option

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euro and the interest rate was eight percent So you

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paid eight grand a year to rent that hundred for

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ten years at which point you're going to pay it

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all off simple but after five years the exchange rates

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have drifted massively Magic fairy dust was sprinkled by wizards

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all over europe They beat back the thirty two hour

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work week Corruption unions and economic misery wrought by not

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being able to compete with china russia in africa and

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here that we'll make enough In fact one euro buys

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you two u s dollars like it when the euro

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swap shin on the interest payment flavor of the hundred

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that eight grand in euros that is instead of the

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eight thousand dollars a year in interest you can pay

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