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问题如下：
A US bond portfolio manager wants to hedge a long position in a 10- year Treasury bond against a potential rise in domestic interest rates. He would most likely:
选项：
A.
sell fixed- income (bond) futures.
B.
enter a receive- fixed 10- year interest rate swap.
C.
sell a strip of 90- day Eurodollar futures contracts.
解释：
A is correct.
The portfolio manager would most likely use a longer-dated fixed- income (bond) futures contract to hedge his interest rate risk exposure. The choice of the hedging instrument, in fact, will depend on the maturity of the bond being hedged. Interest rate futures, like 90-day Eurodollar futures, have a limited number of maturities and can be used to hedge short-term bonds. The mark-to- market value of a receive- fixed 10- year interest rate swap will become negative if interest rates rises, and thus the swap cannot be used as a hedge in this case.
中文解析：
A选项：预期利率上升，对应bond价格下跌，所以sell fixed- income (bond) futures，即在bond下跌（利率上升）时获利。
B选项：进入一个收10年期固定利率的互换，由于利率在上升，意味着我们收到的在变少，所以不能获利。
C选项： Eurodollarfutures期限是90天，不适合用来对冲10年期债券。
想请问一下，eurodollar futures本质还是一个interest rate futures吧？利率上升对它影响都是使得其价格下降的。只是报价比较特殊？这个报价会影响什么吗？在做题的时候需要怎么特殊考虑吗？ 另外，何老师提到了strip还有另外一种什么stuck？我还是不太明白这两种东西是怎么回事。能不能麻烦解释一下。谢谢
