For the wine drinker, buying a contract is simply a way to lock in a price (gambling it won't get cheaper with time).
You could largely immunize yourself against that exposure by buying a contract to receive 1, 000 barrels of oil spread out over the next 20 years.
The PowerShares DB Oil ETF attempts to minimize the negative effects of contango by buying the contract month with the highest effective roll yield when necessary.
Bear Stearns' Byers suggests buying the nearest contract (they expire quarterly) and rolling over into the next one.
By buying a longer contract you can reduce transaction costs, but be careful and use a stop-loss order.
Options on futures are an alternative to buying a futures contract outright.
Some of the contests will feature the actual phone (carrier branding may vary), while others will offer an Apple Store gift card to cover the cost of buying one without a contract.
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Part of the reason Oshkosh won was that the Army buying command awarding the contract decided all the bidders (Navistar competed too) were equal in capabilities and past performance, making price the sole discriminator in the outcome.
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Another issue with these markets is that consumers are accustomed to buying mobile products without a contract from telecom providers.
Several firms that had been Asian ODMs Acer and ASUS, in particular spun off their manufacturing arms Wistron and Pegatron, respectively and morphed their companies into strong brands, buying their manufacturing in the contract marketplace rather than doing it themselves.
The betting odds ( Intrade.com ) currently assign to Obama-Biden a 66% chance of winning (up from 55% a week ago), hence only a 34% chance for a Romney-Ryan win, but if you believe the polls, which suggest a Romney-Ryan win, notice you could triple your money in a weekend by buying the Romney-Ryan contract at 34 today and cashing it out at 100 after the election.
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Customers buying a handset have an implicit contract that they will be kept as up to date as possible.
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Buying in to the platform at an early stage of its life (and more than likely buying in with a two year contract) is a big risk.
It could have said to Malone: We're not buying unless you tear up that Starz contract.
It looks like one or more options traders selling puts in the front month and buying debit put spreads in the October contract see little danger of a sharp correction in the stock through the end of this week.
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Contrarians betting on a rebound took to multiple expiries, buying calls and selling puts in the August contract, as well as initiating bullish spreads in longer-dated contracts.
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Huge contract manufacturers like Flextronics and Solectron are buying more parts directly from suppliers, cutting out distributors, while prices for chips (half of Arrow's total sales) drop 30% annually.
Instead, like buying a house with a small down payment, you pay a fraction of the contract's value yourself and borrow the rest.
Beckham's Galaxy contract runs out next year and although there is the option next month of buying out the final 12 months of his deal, he is content to stay until 2011.
I. are buying in a nice neighborhood in a great northern New Jersey town was appraised for more than the contract purchase price!
June and July contract calls are the most active with in- and out-of-the-money call buying a seemingly popular strategy amongst traders.
Well, because one of the major downsides of buying a house is that your equity is locked up in it and you have this very long term mortgage contract that its hard to get out of.
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