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  2. Live cattle - Wikipedia

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    Live cattle is a type of futures contract that can be used to hedge and to speculate on fed cattle prices. Cattle producers, feedlot operators, and merchant exporters can hedge future selling prices for cattle through trading live cattle futures, and such trading is a common part of a producer's price risk management program. [1]

  3. List of commodities exchanges - Wikipedia

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    This protects the farmer from price drops and the buyer from price rises. Speculators and investors also buy and sell these contracts to try to make a profit; they provide liquidity to the system. Some of these exchanges also trade financial derivatives, such as interest rate and foreign exchange futures, as well as other instruments such as ...

  4. Hillary Clinton cattle futures controversy - Wikipedia

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    Various publications sought to analyze the likelihood of Clinton's successful results. Clinton made her money by betting mostly on a market downturn at a time when cattle prices actually doubled. [13] The editor of the Journal of Futures Markets said in April 1994, "This is like buying ice skates one day and entering the Olympics a day later ...

  5. Feeder cattle - Wikipedia

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    Feeder cattle futures contracts, traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), can be used to hedge and to speculate on the price of feeder cattle. Cattle producers can hedge future buying and selling prices for feeder cattle through trading feeder cattle futures, and such trading is a common part of a producer's risk management program. [11]

  6. Futures exchange - Wikipedia

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    A futures exchange or futures market is a central financial exchange where people can trade standardized futures contracts defined by the exchange. [1] Futures contracts are derivatives contracts to buy or sell specific quantities of a commodity or financial instrument at a specified price with delivery set at a specified time in the future.

  7. Commodity market - Wikipedia

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    In futures contracts the buyer and the seller stipulate product, grade, quantity and location and leaving price as the only variable. [32] Agricultural futures contracts are the oldest, in use in the United States for more than 170 years. [33] Modern futures agreements, began in Chicago in the 1840s, with the appearance of grain elevators. [34]

  8. Orange juice futures are hitting record highs. Here’s why ...

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    In recent weeks, prices in the OJ futures market have topped $3 per pound. Around this time last year, prices were hovering at around $1.81 per pound. ... By July, the forecast had fallen even ...

  9. Commodity price index - Wikipedia

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    The first index to track commodity futures prices was the Dow Jones futures index which started being listed in 1933 (backfilled to 1924). [1] The next such index was the CRB ("Commodity Research Bureau") Index, which began in 1958. Due to its construction both of these were not useful as an investment index.