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Futures may mean:
Finance
- Futures contract A futures contract is a standardized contract to buy or sell a specified commodity of standardized quality at a certain date in the future and at a market-determined price . The contracts are traded on a futures exchange. Futures contracts are not "direct" securities like stocks, bonds, rights or warrants. They are still securities,, a tradable financial contract
- Futures exchange A futures exchange or derivatives exchange is a central financial exchange where people can trade standardized futures contracts; that is, a contract to buy specific quantities of a commodity or financial instrument at a specified price with delivery set at a specified time in the future, a financial market where futures contracts are traded
- Futures (magazine) Futures magazine is a U.S. based monthly magazine about commodity futures contracts, stocks, options, derivatives and forex, an American finance magazine
Social sciences
- Futures studies Futurology is the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. It is considered as a topic in philosophy. Some claim it is a science, or art. In general, it can be considered as a branch under the more general scope of the field of history. Futures studies (colloquially called &, multidisciplinary studies of patterns to determine the likelihood of future trends
- Futures (journal) Futures is an international, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal concerned with futures studies. It is published by Elsevier. As of 2009, the editor-in-chief is Ziauddin Sardar, an international futures studies journal
Music
- Futures (album) Futures is the fifth studio album by alternative rock band Jimmy Eat World, released on October 19, 2004. Futures was led by the successful single "Pain" followed by "Work" and the less successful "Futures" which did not receive as much airplay, a 2004 release by Jimmy Eat World
Other
- Futures and promises In computer science, future, promise, and delay refer to constructs used for synchronization in some concurrent programming languages. They describe an object that acts as a proxy for a result that is initially not known, usually because the computation of its value has not yet completed, computer programming objects that act as proxies for results that are not yet determined
- Futures tournaments Futures tournaments are tennis tournaments held by the ITF Men's Circuit. They allow for players to win career titles and improve their rankings. Futures are held in both singles and doubles, and last only one week. They contain qualifying rounds so that players who are not ranked can gain ATP ranking points. Several hundred Futures events are, minor professional tennis events
- "Futures", a flash fiction Flash fiction is fiction of extreme brevity. There is no widely accepted definition of the length of the category. Some self-described markets for flash fiction impose caps as low as 300, while others consider stories as long as 1000 words to be flash fiction feature in the journal Nature Nature is a prominent British scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869. Most scientific journals are now highly specialized, and Nature is among the few journals that still publish original research articles across a wide range of scientific fields. There are many fields of scientific research in which some[vague] important new
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On the New York Mercantile Exchange, crude futures for April delivery added 98 cents, or 1.2%, to end the floor session at $79.68 a barrel. ...
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