Us swap curve rates
1 month and 3 month USD LIBOR forward curves represent the market's expectation of future fixings derived from readily observable trade data, including Eurodollar Deposits, Eurodollar Futures and LIBOR swap rates. The Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) forward curve represents the average implied forward rate based on SOFR futures contracts. Because swap rates incorporate investors’ expectations for future US Treasury rates as well as the open market’s perception of other factors (i.e. liquidity, supply & demand, the credit quality of US banks, etc.), the swap curve is an extremely important interest rate benchmark. Swap Curve The swap curve is a graph of fixed coupon rates of market-quoted interest rate swaps across different maturities in time. A vanilla interest rate swap consists of a fixed leg and a floating leg. At contract initiation, the fixed rate equates the cash flows from the fixed and floating legs over the contract’s maturity, resulting in a net cash flow of zero.