Cheap Negative Rate Bets Fly Off the Shelves Before Fed Decision By Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) -- Traders are piling into inexpensive options that hedge against negative interest rates as bets on Federal Reserve hikes are pushed further out into 2023. Over the past 10 days, demand has emerged for an array of 100.00 call strike options on eurodollar contracts -- which are priced off Libor -- protecting against potential interest-rate cuts. More than 100,000 options have been bought across an array of tenors during that period. The call strike coincides with a Libor rate of zero, compared with Wednesday’s return of 0.1285%. Just before the Fed meeting, eurodollar futures are...
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