Aaron, whose firm offers futures on 90 red Bordeaux (pay now for delivery of 1999 vintages in spring 2002), says that some labels are stuck at the same prices they were at a year ago.

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There is thus little threat to Kansas City's main product, futures and options on hard red winter wheat.

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And stock futures are deeply in the red.

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"It's a sea of red, " said Ira Epstein, a director at Linn Group futures brokerage.

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Index futures, traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, were trading in the red Tuesday morning but reversed course to close higher.

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Unconfirmed reports that three people had been shot sent oil futures on a steep upturn on a day where most markets were trading deeply in the red.

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Each day Lavender, 57, wears the same purple jacket with red lapels to help clients pick him out of the crowd as he trades contracts for ten-year Treasury note futures.

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