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S&P Futures trade with a multiplier, sized to correspond to $250 per point per contract. If the S&P Futures are trading at 2,000, a single futures contract would have a market value of $500,000. For every 1 point the S&P 500 Index fluctuates, the S&P Futures contract will increase or decrease $250.
The contract was introduced by the CME on September 9, 1997, after the value of the existing S&P contract (then valued at 500 times the index, or over $500,000 at the time) became too large for many small traders. The E-mini quickly became the most popular equity index futures contract in the world.
E-minis are futures contracts that represent a fraction of the value of standard futures. They are traded primarily on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.As of April, 2011, CME lists 44 unique E-mini contracts, [1] of which approximately 10 have average daily trading volumes of over 1,000 contracts.
(Reuters) -S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures inched higher on Thursday, aided by strong quarterly results from Bank of America, while investors awaited economic data that could offer insights into the ...
Futures can cover a wide variety of deliverables, including commodities such as oil and corn as well as interest rates, metals, currencies and the level of indexes such as the S&P 500. Futures ...
According to preliminary data, the S&P 500 gained 32.48 points, or 0.63%, to end at 5,149.57 points, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 130.28 points, or 0.82%, to 16,103.46. The Dow Jones ...
Tick values for some popular contracts (as of June 2010 [1]) ; Futures Product Contract Size Tick Size Tick Value E-Mini S&P 500 (): $50 x index: 0.25: $12.50 E-Mini NASDAQ (CME): $20 x index
New analysis from Goldman Sachs shows how a record consolidation at the top of the S&P 500 led to much of the index's 2023 gains. ... — make up 29% of the S&P 500's market cap. And a chart in ...