NYSE Liffe, a new futures exchange owned by NYSE Euronext, has said that it will launch interest-rate futures contracts in the third quarter.

纽约泛欧交易所集团(NYSE Euronext)旗下的新期货交易所nyse Liffe已宣布将于第三季度推出利率期货合约。

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Compare this to the failure of Lehman's unregulated credit default swaps and non-cleared interest rate swaps, which triggered chaos in the market because these contracts were not centrally cleared.

相比之下，雷曼未受监管的信贷违约互换和非清算利率互换合约则引发了市场的混乱，因为这些合约没有进行集中清算。

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Interest-rate contracts, which make up the bulk of the market, reached $465 trillion in December 2010, exceeding their pre-financial-crisis level.

占市场大部分的利率合约在2010年12月份达到465万亿美元，超过金融危机前的水平。

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The average daily volume of interest rate contracts increased by almost 25% in Q1 2011 compared to the same quarter of the prior year.

FORBES: Rising Volume Tied To Interest Rates Is Good For CME Group

We forecast the daily volume of interest rate contracts to reach nearly 11 million by 2017 from its current level of about 5 million.

FORBES: CME Can Catch A Bid To $342 With More Energy and Interest Rate Trading

Primarily based on Eurodollars, U.S. Treasuries, swaps and other dollar-related instruments that customers can utilize to manage short, medium and long term interest rate risk, interest rate contracts are the largest class of financial products traded on CME Group.

FORBES: Rising Volume Tied To Interest Rates Is Good For CME Group