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futures market

American  

noun

  1. a market in which futures contracts in commodities are traded.


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That momentum is continuing into the futures market this morning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Following the remarks, the odds of a rate hike at the mid-September meeting surged to roughly 58% on the Fed funds futures market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Speculators have been building up bullish dollar bets in the futures market for weeks — long before President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he believed an interim deal to end hostilities with Iran was “over.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

Yet the futures market lately has been “treating silver like a rate-sensitive trading vehicle just as governments and industrial users are starting to treat it as a critical material,” she told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026

The Liverpool Cotton Market is both a great "spot" cotton market, and a great "futures" market.

From The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States by Guaranty Trust Company of New York

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