Investors are willing to accept lower returns when investing in assets that provide liquidity and safety. This discount is acknowledged as convenience yield. This study considers the difference between the fixed leg of an interest rate swap and the treasury bond yield as a measure of the convenience yield. While the literature commonly focuses on the analysis of this referred premium for the United States, I construct a swap spread strategy for four countries: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil and Poland. The former two are developed countries while the latter are emerging countries. The results show that the convenience yield for the developed countries analyzed is, on average, positive and hits extreme values during financial crisis, in accordance with other papers on this issue. Distinctly, the yield for emerging countries is mostly negative and incurs in even lower amounts at moments of distress, behaving in the opposite way. Empirically, this difference between the convenience yield calculated for the United States and for Brazil is related to measures of liquidity and safety premium, entailing to the understanding that at moments of financial stress, the American treasury sustains an even larger convenience yield when compared to the Brazilian treasury.