Futures are apprehended only in the prophetic mode of the inspired historian.
Exchanges for actual delivery, rather than cash-settled futures exchanges quoted only in bitcoin, will also require holding customer funds in national currencies.
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That put silver in second place for the strongest commodity futures markets, beaten only by orange juice.
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That opens possibilities for leverage and hedging previously available only in the futures markets.
More than ever, middle management is uncertain not only about their futures, but their current decision making authority and the impact it allows them to create.
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Those short traders have been squeezed badly and have been forced to cover their big losing bets this week, which has only driven gold futures prices still higher.
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Yan, fresh from two Futures tournament triumphs but playing only his second ever match against an opponent ranked in the top 100, refused to be beaten and clawed a break back in game four with a winner down the line.
In the future, he said, the LPGA's developmental Symetra Tour (formerly the Futures Tour) may become the only qualifying avenue onto the LPGA Tour, eliminating the one-shot qualifying-school ticket.
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In the weekly commitments of traders data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, speculators continued to add to long positions not only in gold, but also in silver and the platinum group metals when looking at data for futures and options combined.
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It could collapse banks holding huge short positions in the futures market, accustomed to settling contracts cash only.
And I was always impressed that Heinlein was very strict about the mathematics of his futures, to the point that he not only calcuated the ballistics of his spaceships, he went ahead and put his calculations in the book.
China has its own soy futures market, as does Brazil, but that is only for local trade.
Congress has only ever stepped in to ban one kind of futures trade in the past: onions.
Man's winning bid does not include regulatory capital--it is only buying the assets of Refco's regulated futures business.
Futures were down 10-12 last night and now are only down a bit.
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ETFs, which trade as stocks on an exchange, have proved wildly popular as a means to buy and sell gold far more easily than in the past, when the only options were to invest in gold bars or futures contracts.
And these are only a few of the important new commitments made through Equal Futures.
The futures price for delivery in January, at the peak of consumption, is only 94.9 cents, leaving no spread over today's price to pay storage costs.
In fact, analysts say people who are selling gold (or, more accurately, gold futures contracts since few people take delivery of physical gold if it's only an investment) are using the money to buy shares.
As recently as 2006, the only way Main Street investors could play the trend was to buy commodity futures.
Futures traders with winning positions sometimes opt to book their profits when they sense momentum stalling, even if only temporarily.
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Short-dated futures responded more to this less optimistic forward-looking indicator than to the inflation reading given that it is not only backwards looking but also based on the fact that the ECB has already shown its readiness to raise rates on inflation grounds.
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