Talk:Basis risk

Clearer definition

Basis risk can be more generally described as the risk of offsetting investments thought to be hedging each other turning out to be less perfect hedges than initially expected. You though you bought apples and sold apples, but it turned out there are two kinds of apples that people are usually indifferent to, and you bought Bramley apples and sold Cox's and suddenly for some reason there is a price difference between the two.

Examples are IRS/Bond basis, cross currency basis, onshore/offshore basis, EONIA/SONIA basis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.108.78.10 (talk) 11:32, 23 July 2008 (UTC)