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These 3D Printer Trading Cards Are What Kids Will Swap In The Future
TechCrunch  May 18  Comment 
While, arguably, you’re not going to convince many kids to give up their Topps or Pokemon cards for these things, it’s nice to know they exist. They’re 3D Printer trading cards featuring some of the best 3D printers in the world. You got...
CFTC Approves Final Rule On Swap Data Recordkeeping And Reporting Requirements For Pre-Dodd-Frank And Transition Swaps
Mondo Visione  May 18  Comment 
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today approved a final rule on swap data recordkeeping and reporting requirements for counterparties to pre-enactment swaps, those swaps executed prior to passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, and...
CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler Statement Of Supporting - SWAP Data Recordkeeping And Reporting Requirements: Pre-Enactment And Transition SWAPS
Mondo Visione  May 18  Comment 
Sterling Resources announces North Sea asset swap
OilVoice  May 18  Comment 
Sterling Resources Ltd. TSXVSLG announce the execution of an agreement with Enquest PLC under the terms of which Sterling will acquire Enquest39s 10 percent interest in its FQuad and LQuad li
Is there a way to swap stocks for cash in my RRSP?
The Globe and Mail  May 17  Comment 
The purpose of this new anti-swap rule is to stop abusive swap transactions involving thinly traded, illiquid shares with questionable market values
RBI offers $2 bn swap arrangement to SAARC countries
The Hindu Business Line  May 16  Comment 
The Reserve Bank of India will offer Swap Arrangement of US $ 2 billion both in foreign currency and Indian rupee to member countries of the South Asian Association of Regional Co-operation. ...
EBACE: Nextant, HBC swap blows over re-engining programmes
Flightglobal  May 15  Comment 
Nextant and Hawker Beechcraft have renewed their hostilities as the two companies fight for the upper hand in the market for re-engined Hawker 400-series...
Founder Swap: Like Wife Swap For Startup Execs
TechCrunch  May 15  Comment 
On June 1, Founder Swap aims to take six different startups and get them to exchange founders, in an effort to get a fresh set of eyes on whatever they're working on and foster new ideas. The New York City-based project was dreamed up by ScrollKit...
Senior USAF KC-46 and F-35 officials swap positions
Flightglobal  May 14  Comment 
Two senior US Air Force officials leading the service's largest programmes are swapping positions, mystifying analysts and retired flag-officers. Maj...
EBACE: Hawker Beechcraft to be under new ownership after $2.5 billion debt/equity swap
Flightglobal  May 13  Comment 
Hawker Beechcraft has revealed that the company will have new owners after emerging from a financial restructuring under Chapter 11 bankrutpcy protection...
P.O.W. Is Focus of Talks on Taliban Prisoner Swap
New York Times  May 9  Comment 
Frustrated by stalled negotiations, the parents of an Army sergeant abruptly disclosed that he was the subject of secret negotiations.




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A swap is a derivative in which counterparties exchange certain benefits of one party's financial instrument for those of the other party's financial instrument. For example, in the case of a swap involving two bonds, the benefits in question can be the periodic interest (or coupon) payments associated with the bonds. Specifically, the two counterparties agree to exchange one stream of cash flows against another stream. These streams are called the legs of the swap. The swap agreement defines the dates when the cash flows are to be paid and the way they are calculated. Usually at the time when the contract is initiated at least one of these series of cash flows is determined by a random or uncertain variable such as an interest rate, foreign exchange rate, equity price or commodity price.

Swaps can be used to hedge certain risks such as interest rate risk, or to speculate on changes in the expected direction of underlying prices.

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