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Stock futures traded slightly lower Thursday morning to give back some gains from a day earlier, as September selling pressure returned to equity markets.
ARLINGTON, Texas — First held in 1999, the All-Star Futures Game has long been an annual showcase of the game’s top prospects, who are invited to participate in a seven-inning exhibition as ...
US stock futures rose early on Wednesday and bitcoin jumped as Donald Trump looked set to win the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, shrinking Kamala Harris ...
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.
Futures contracts are commonly used for hedge or speculative financial goals. Futures contracts are used to hedge, or offset investment risk by commodity owners (i.e., farmers), or portfolios with undesirable risk exposure offset by the futures position. [7] Futures are also widely used to speculate trading profits.
The Bloomberg Commodity Index (BCOM) is a broadly diversified commodity price index distributed by Bloomberg Index Services Limited. The index was originally launched in 1998 as the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index ( DJ-AIGCI ) and renamed to Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index ( DJ-UBSCI ) in 2009, when UBS acquired the index from AIG .
Stocks inched higher on Wednesday amid a shortened week of trading and few major catalysts to drive market action. The S&P 500 neared an all-time high close of 4,796.56 on Wednesday but couldn't ...
Non-farm payrolls grew by 943,000 last month, exceeding estimates for about 870,000, according to Bloomberg data. Job gains for both May and June were also upwardly revised by a total of 119,000.