Given widespread apathy about changes in consumer prices, the modest success of a new market to hedge inflation risk, the European inflation futures market at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), is noteworthy. Since September, this new market has traded the Eurozone’s Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices, or HICP – a contract that traders call the “hiccup.”
大众对于消费者价格变化无动于衷。有鉴于此，芝加哥期货交易所欧洲通胀期货市场作为一个新的防范通货膨胀风险的交易市场所取得的适度成功是值得关注。自九月份以来，这一新的交易市场对欧元区消费者物价协调指数（简称HICP）进行交易。HICP是一种合同，交易员称之为“暂停跌价”。公司或个人通过买入或卖出HICP，可以防范由货币价值变化而导致的损失。