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Interest Rates: Trading the Swap Spread
Before the introduction of CBOT MAC Swap futures, it was difficult to construct a credit spread using interest rate futures contracts. This article examines the “swap spread” between interest rate swap and Treasury rates with the use of MAC Swap futures and CBOT Treasury futures.