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  2. What are futures and how do they work? - AOL

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    A futures contract can be bought and sold constantly until the expiration date. A trader, for example, might buy a futures contract on crude oil at 10:00 a.m. for $70 and sell it at 3:00 p.m. for $72.

  3. Exchange of futures for physicals - Wikipedia

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    In finance, an exchange of futures for physicals (EFP) is a transaction between two parties in which a futures contract on a commodity is exchanged for the actual physical good. This transaction involves a privately negotiated exchange of a futures position for a corresponding position in the underlying physical.

  4. List of traded commodities - Wikipedia

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    Corn: CBOT: XCBT: 5000 bu C/ZC (Electronic) Corn EURONEXT: 50 tons EMA Corn DCE: XDCE: 10 metric tons c Oats CBOT: XCBT: 5000 bu O/ZO (Electronic) Rough Rice CBOT: XCBT: 2000 cwt: ZR Soybeans CBOT: XCBT: 5000 bu: S/ZS (Electronic) No 2. Soybean DCE XDCE: 10 metric tons b Rapeseed: EURONEXT 50 tons ECO Soybean Meal: CBOT: XCBT: 100 short tons SM ...

  5. Commodity market - Wikipedia

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    In 1934, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics began the computation of a daily Commodity price index that became available to the public in 1940. By 1952, the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued a Spot Market Price Index that measured the price movements of "22 sensitive basic commodities whose markets are presumed to be among the first to be influenced by changes in economic conditions.

  6. Refinitiv Equal Weight Commodity Index - Wikipedia

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    The Refinitiv Equal Weight Commodity Index (formerly known as the Continuous Commodity Index) is a major US barometer of commodity prices. The index comprises 17 commodity futures that are continuously rebalanced: cocoa, coffee, copper, corn, cotton, crude oil, gold, heating oil, live cattle, live hogs, natural gas, orange juice, platinum, silver, soybeans, Sugar No. 11, and wheat.

  7. Normal backwardation - Wikipedia

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    The resulting futures or forward curve would typically be downward sloping (i.e. "inverted"), since contracts for further dates would typically trade at even lower prices. [2] In practice, the expected future spot price is unknown, and the term "backwardation" may refer to "positive basis", which occurs when the current spot price exceeds the ...

  8. Commodity Futures Trading Commission - Wikipedia

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    Violations may involve commodity futures or option trading on domestic commodity exchanges, or the improper marketing of commodity investments. The Division may, at the direction of the commission, file complaints before the agency's administrative law judges or in the U.S. District Courts.

  9. Stocks-to-use ratio - Wikipedia

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    It is typically used for grain commodity stocks such as wheat, corn and soybeans where it can be used to compare both the ending stock, along with the stocks-to-use ratio against previous years, this percentage number is a good indicator of whether current ending stock levels are at historically small amounts to justification for higher prices ...