futures
nounEtymology Shortening of futures contract.
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Abbreviation, Ellipsis Ellipsis of futures contract.
- Changes in spread between prices of cotton sheeting and twill and prices of cotton futures were relatively less than those indicated for print cloth.1955, Leander D. Howell, Price risks for cotton and cotton products and means of reducing them:
- The percentage of times the American futures call option is priced below the European index call option decreases noticeably when the futures is at a premium to the index.1986, Review of Research in Futures Markets, volumes 5-6, page 53:
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- A Eurodollar futures is a futures contract that at the expiration of the futures contract1996, Ren-Raw Chen, Understanding and Managing Interest Rate Risks, page 75:
- Our study is the first to investigate the price reaction of two broad commodity futures indices to several US macroeconomic announcements.2010, He Huang, Macroeconomic News Effects in Commodity Futures and German Stock and Bond futures markets, →ISBN:
- the raw risk disclosure that managed futures is not a conservative investment.2010, Mark H. Melin, High-Performance Managed Futures:
- A bond futures is a commitment to deliver or take delivery of a notional bond on a future date or between a range of dates.2010, Andrew M. Chisholm, Derivatives Demystified:
- Derived terms
- death futures, futures market, nonfutures, perpetual futures