A commodity swap exchanges, for each period of its life, a fixed price for the average of a published floating price over the period, both applied to an agreed volume, and is settled in cash for the difference.
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Example 1.3 (A monthly crude swap)
An airline buys a swap on 100 000 barrels a month for the next quarter at a fixed against the monthly average of a crude benchmark. If the benchmark averages in the first month, the airline receives ; if it averages in the second, it pays . Whatever it pays for its fuel in the physical market, its net cost per barrel is fixed near $82, up to the difference between the fuel it burns and the benchmark it hedged, which is the subject of the last section.