Word Finder - futures

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The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.

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Something that will happen in moments yet to come.

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Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to.

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There is no future in dwelling on the past.

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The likely prospects for or fate of someone or something in time to come.

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(grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.

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An object that retrieves the value of a promise.

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A minor-league prospect.

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Short for futures contract.

Last time they met, they traded futures.

Each group, it will be observed, except " current futures," culminates in two defined months.

The rule is that on the first of the two months the seller of " futures " may, and before the last day of the second month must, deliver cotton against them, or, what comes to the same thing, buy back the " futures " on the basis of the price of " spot " cotton of middling grade.

Egyptian futures, it will be observed, run out in single months.

As the cost of dealing in " futures " is only one shilling on each transaction for a member of the Cotton Exchange (the outsider is charged in addition a commission by his broker), it is not surprising that the transactions taking place in " futures " number legion.

As regards " middling " American, the committee fixes " spot " by allowing so many " points on or off " present month futures.

The variations of the gaps between " spot " and " present month futures " are somewhat mysterious, a matter to which we shall recur.

Then, according as the spinner wants immediate delivery or delivery in some future month, he pays the price of current " futures," or of " futures " of the month in which he requires delivery, plus or minus the " points on or off " previously fixed.

Some spinners cover their yarn contracts merely by buying " futures," but the cover thus provided is frequently most inadequate owing to variations in the " points on or off" for the particular cotton that they want.

In addition to "futures" proper there are "options" and " straddles."

A " straddle " is a speculation on the difference between the prices of nearer and more distant futures, which varies from time to time, or on the difference between the prices of different kinds of cotton.

Suppose a dealer buys April-May " futures " at 4d.

A question which has met with a good deal of attention is whether the speculation, which has been encouraged by the various arrangements made for facilitating operations in " futures," has steadied or unsteadied prices.

Mr Hooker has shown with reference to the wheat market how close is the correlation between prices in different places,' and the same has been observed of the cotton market, though the Conceivably some indication of the working of " futures " might be gleaned from observation of the relations of near and distant " futures " to one another and of both to spot."

Some examples of the diverse relations to be found, even when all the " futures" fall in the same crop year, may be quoted here-quotations running into the new crop year are obviously affected by anticipations of the new crop.

It is worthy of note that Liverpool "futures" are largely used for hedging by continental cotton dealers.

It might be thought that the "futures" of different months, being substitutes in proportion to their temporal proximity to one another, should vary together exactly; but it would seem to be a sufficient reply that as they are not perfect substitutes they are in some slight degree independent variables.

But the fall of "current futures" would be checked by the demands that must be satisfied in the near future.

Probably the prices of the more distant "futures" are determined in a higher degree by farreaching imagination than the prices of nearer futures.

This explains what has been called above the unintentional "bearing" of "spot" by "futures."

And it is immediately evident that the deliberate "bear" works by selling "futures," and that the effect of his sales is propagated to "spot."

The influence of expectations of the new crop on "futures" running into the new crop is plain on inspection; but owing to the gap between the two crop years it would be astonishing if "futures" against which cotton from a new crop could be delivered were not appreciably independent of "spot" at the time of their quotation.

However, it is noticeable that they are still so closely bound up with "futures" culminating in the old crop year that the daily movements of the former are closely correlated with those of the latter.

Concluding cautiously, we may admit the probability of the relations between near and distant "futures" and "spot" (even in respect of "futures" running out in the same crop year) indicating sometimes at least the intentional or unintentional "bulling" or "bearing" or "spot" by "futures."

But nothing has yet been proved from these facts as to the effect "futures" are having upon the steadiness of prices.

The outcome of the whole matter is that the investigator is still baffled in his attempt to discover what effect the use of "futures" is having upon prices to-day.

One clause in this forbade the dealing in futures in corn, and at the same time a special Prussian law required that there should be representatives of agriculture on the managing corn mittee of the Exchange.

Music was used to build a rapport with some of the students in the Futures Project.

Futures has been organized by Design Initiative in association with ' V ' and Merseyside acme.

Futures are an incredibly risky investment vehicle that are appropriate for only the smallest percentage of highly advanced investors.

The yield on the futures contract due in December has gained 3 basis points this month to 5.26 percent.

You make a futures contract in which they agree to sell you 10,000 tons of pork belly at?1,000 a ton in three months.

These perspectives are used to critique the policy idea of territorial cohesion, which is central to current debates about EU spatial futures.

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Financial long-term contracts could limit this problem through the establishment of a market for financial futures or options.

But Scannell is curiously detached from the children whose shocking futures he anticipates.

The report summarizes the six key methodologies for futures work, covering most of the commonly used tools by professional futurists.

Unsurprisingly given their proximity to livestock, cheese proved a mainstay in securing the girls's romantic futures.

Pricing Futures Futures prices are presented in the same format as cash market prices.

Are these commodities traders seeking an inside tip on short-term squash futures?

The answer is that though the ratios between the prices of the various grades alter, the prices of all of them move generally together, and that the " futures " of the Exchange at least provide a hedge against the latter movements.

But it is futile to seek the effect of much dealing in " futures " in the differences between price movements in the various markets, because (I) demand expresses itself in different ways-in Germany, for example, spinners buy to hold large stocks-and (2) the markets are in telegraphic communication, so that their price movements are kept parallel.

It seems a plausible conjecture that if "futures" were " bulling " the market in the first case, they were at least " bulling " it less in the second case ceteris paribus, and probably correlations have not been worked out.'

In the case of any crop year, if the relations which are suggested as indicating the "bulling" work of "futures" usually corresponded with "spot" prices being below the normal price of the crop year, or of what was left of the crop year, while the relations which are suggested to indicate the "bearing" work of "futures" on the whole corresponded with a relatively abnormal height of "spot," it would be a legitimate inference that "futures" were tending to smooth prices.

To the same century we may assign the grammarian Theodosius of Alexandria, who, instead of confining himself (like Dionysius Thrax) to the tenses of Tb rTW in actual use, was the first to set forth all the imaginary aorists and futures of that verb, which have thence descended through the Byzantine age to the grammars of the Renaissance and of modern Europe.

Bad science fiction plots, speculating on futures which could not really happen, are the worst examples of this.

These teams have access to the latest research information and are skilled in futures techniques in order to best capture and explore future environments.

And I yearn to know what those futures held and how they dealt with them.

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