This also explains those big trading floors: the hope is that the trader of European bank shares, say, will pick up useful knowledge from his firm's interest-rate or currency analysts.

这也解释了这些大型的交易场地：希望在于，欧洲银行股票的交易者说，将会从他公司的利率或是汇率分析师那获得有用的知识。

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The hypothetical amount on which interest payments are based in products such as interest rate swaps, forward rate agreements, caps and floors.

指在诸如期权，利率互换、远期利率协议等金融衍生品工具的支付利息时所依据的假设金额。

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Fearing all markets could soon fall, El-Erian injected what he referred to as "Armageddon insurance" into HMC's portfolio for the first time by buying interest rate floors, or a wager that rates would fall, and betting, via credit default swaps, that companies could soon struggle to pay their debts.

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