Why are swaps used?

Related questions

1. What happens if a stock goes to 0?
2. Why do banks enter into interest rate swaps?
3. Do options trade OTC?
4. How swaps are traded?
5. What is a swap fee?
6. How are interest swaps priced?
7. Can eTrade buy Canadian stocks?
8. Can you trade penny stocks on eTrade?
9. Why do banks use interest rate swaps?
10. Are interest rate swaps exchange traded?

Tags

1. #advantages
2. #hedge
3. #currency
4. #reducing
5. #financial
6. #result
7. #uncertainty
8. #lower
9. #swaps
10. #these
11. #companies
12. #against
13. #interest
14. #amount
15. #future
16. #exposure
17. #tools
18. #service
19. #needed
20. #flows