Wouldn t futures contracts sound completely different if they were reframed as contracts for baskets instead of hiccups? A futures market for the complete market basket that consumers buy certainly rings with importance.

Ultimately, the advance of information technology will be the salvation of ideas like the CME s inflation futures market and indexed units of account. Inflation futures appear to be gaining hold in part because the new contract is traded on an efficient electronic market (the Globex system) that allows futures contracts to get going without the initial splash that is required by open outcry pit based futures markets.

Market analysts held that the corn futures price declined on decreasing trading volume, while foreign countries' increased imports of soybeans from the U.S. drove up the soybean futures price.

A genuine futures market on single family homes has not been attempted since 1991 when the London Futures and Options Exchange (now merged into Euronext.liffe) failed in its effort to launch such a market in Britain. That attempt never generated much trading volume.

(c) Asia Pacific Futures Course An Introduction to Futures Studies (Futures of Development Historical Roots, Present Trends and Alternative Futures), Bangkok, Thailand, August 1992

Furthermore, ample worldwide liquidity and the rise of other commodity prices induced market speculators to buy into oil futures.

(f) European Futures Studies Course, Futures of Communication, Andorra, 1994

Well developed markets for real estate derivatives would allow homeowners to kick the gambling habit. A liquid, cash settled futures market that is based on an index of home prices in a city would enable a homeowner living there to sell in a futures market to protect himself.

(d) European Futures Studies Course, Futures of Education, Andorra, May 1993

(g) Asia Pacific Futures Course An Introduction to Futures Studies (Futures of Peace Civilizations, Structures and Visions), Philippines, November 1994

Any potential earnings impact on AGL from FY18 onwards is currently limited by the strong futures market outlook for wholesale electricity prices.

Europe s Two Futures

America s Opposing Futures

They start to make not only commercial marketing decisions, but also planting decisions, on the basis of information coming from the futures price market.

Obama and Asia s Two Futures

The futures market at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is now predicting declines of around 15 more before the prices bottom out in 2010. These are the market s forecasts and it is not a very liquid market.

What do futures sacrifice for success?

44. WORLD FUTURES STUDIES FEDERATION (WFSF)

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(b) European Futures Studies Course, Bucharest, Romania, 1992

The World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) is an international body of researchers, scholars, policy makers and other people seriously involved in futures studies.

Given widespread apathy about changes in consumer prices, the modest success of a new market to hedge inflation risk, the European inflation futures market at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), is noteworthy. Since September, this new market has traded the Eurozone s Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices, or HICP a contract that traders call the hiccup.

The pair will take a year before deciding their futures.

Because seeds, in all their diverse glory, are plants' futures.

We were able to ensure brighter futures for these people.

Brent crude oil futures closed up with 1.0 , reported 82.72 barrel.

Forced to learn to kill instead of pursuing education, the children of conflict lack the knowledge and skills needed to build their own futures and the futures of their communities.

In principle, however, these futures markets can provide an essential service.7

All three of us with no pasts, just futures. Isn't that interesting?

We've been able to ensure better futures for the people and the bears.

WFSF has collaborated with UNESCO on the Futures of Culture project, 1990 1993.

Derivative instruments shall include forward contracts, futures contracts, exchanges and options, as well as the instruments that contain one or more of the characters of a forward contract, futures contract, exchange or option.

Well, the need to avoid these huge risks and tremendous losses led to the birth of the futures market, and the underlying system of grading grain and receipting issuing warehouse receipts on the basis of which trade could be done.

Various United Nations publications and coming events are published in the WFSF bulletin, Futures Bulletin.

The new futures market for single family homes at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (which I helped establish last May with our firm MacroMarkets LLC) is predicting that by next August prices will fall between 6 and 8 in all ten US cities traded.

This will be an introductory course in futures for participants in a WFSF Global Visions project.

Producers, of course, can have recourse to managing price risks through hedging strategies in futures markets.

Center for Health and Population and Social Welfare, Futures Institute for Sustainable Development, merger of World Population Society, in special consultative status, and Center for Health and Population and Social Welfare, Futures Institute for Sustainable Development, not in status.

Corn, wheat and soybean futures prices delivered mixed performance at Chicago Board of Trade on November 11.

Yes, we bought futures at 5 cents and the war came along and the price Went skyhigh

This is the Africa where people want to take charge of their own futures and their own destinies.

This defines the imagined futures of our fellow Hungarians Robicsek, Teszler and Bartok as it does my own.

The Federation promotes and encourages futures studies as well as innovative interdisciplinary analysis and critique among all people.

(h) WFSF Fourteenth World Conference, Futures Beyond Poverty, Nairobi, Kenya, July 1995. 45. WORLD ORGANIZATION OF BUILDING OFFICIALS

(g) United Nations Third Seminar on Space Futures and Human Security, to be held in the province of Tyrol, Austria