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Good Evening Sir!
i have gone thru all the previous posts on this question but my questions r rather basic:
1. what is a vanilla swap?
2. the 10 year rates available are 5.25-5.4. do these refer to lending and borrowing respectively?
regards.
A vanilla swap is what we normally think of with swaps for P4 – where floating interest is swapped for fixed interest.
The lower rate is the interest rate given on deposits, the higher rate is the interest rate charged on borrowings.
thank u
You are welcome 🙂
hi sir,
sorry if ive missed thos obvious point.
but could you point out as to where this figure came from :-
part b) payments= libor/2 +0.6%
where is 0.6 coming from?
also one last question on this one, whilst calculating the effective annual interest rate , arithmetically rather than putting the figures in the formula , can we just double the interest rate for 6 months which is 3.30% X 2 = which also gives 6.7%?
thanks alot.
i know this is not my place to answer but the 0.6 is given in the question
” as 120 basis points above LIBOR”
so 6-monthly = L/2 + 120/2 = L/2 + .6
ohhh so basically 120 basis points was divided by 2 for 6 months.
ok thanks Mr Mansoor
Thanks Mansoor (although please don’t make a habit of answering in this forum 🙂 )
