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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ggersh who wrote (5904)	4/5/2008 5:05:33 PM
From: RockyBalboa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71402

If you refer to OTC contracts, yes. Derivative contracts follow underlying business in underwriting and other loan sharking. There are much fewer swaps and ultimately, less sellers in Treasuries exactly because of that. The whole securitisation chain shrinked and corporate debt issue declined quite a bit. Pairing and recouponing of existing stuff is lot of work though. Exchange traded futures are brisk as ever. In some red hot commodities volume is down as the margin requirements have been substantially raised. On the other hand treasury futures volume is actually much higher.