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Futures exchanges establish a minimum amount that the price of a commodity can ... 1/2 of 1/32: $15.625 [3] 30 Year Treasury Bond: $100,000: 1/32: $31.25 Gold ...
Otherwise, the difference between the forward price on the futures (futures price) and the forward price on the asset, is proportional to the covariance between the underlying asset price and interest rates. For example, a futures contract on a zero-coupon bond will have a futures price lower than the forward price.
U.S. mortgage bonds and certain corporate bonds are quoted in increments of one thirty-second (1/32) of one percent. [1] That means that prices will be quoted as, for instance, 99-30/32 - "99 and 30 ticks", meaning 99 and 30/32 percent of the face value.
An E-mini future symbol is formed by starting with the root symbol and adding the expiration month letter (the same as for futures) and the last digit of the expiration year. For example, the E-mini S&P 500 expiring in December 2012 has the symbol ESZ2.
There is a time dimension to the analysis of bond values. A 10-year bond at purchase becomes a 9-year bond a year later, and the year after it becomes an 8-year bond, etc. Each year the bond moves incrementally closer to maturity, resulting in lower volatility and shorter duration and demanding a lower interest rate when the yield curve is rising.
S&P 500 futures were last 0.5% higher while Dow and Nasdaq futures were up 0.6%. Benchmark 10-year Treasury yields were down more than 5 basis points to 4.355% and the dollar was also lower on the ...
In Treasuries, the yield on benchmark U.S. 10-year notes fell 14.1 basis points to 4.269%, from 4.41% late on Friday while the 30-year bond yield fell 13.9 basis points to 4.4562%.
Ticker symbols are often reused on different exchanges, so in many cases the same ticker symbol references different securities. RIC codes use "artificial" tickers for common indexes and money market instruments. For instance, the US 10-year money market bond is assigned the ticker US10YT, the "T" at the end