At seminars in Bangkok, investors learn how to buy gold futures contracts.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

The futures contracts were invented in Japan in the 1600s at Osaka and they were developed for the rice market in Japan.

期货交易合同发明于,16世纪的日本大阪,并在日本的大米市场得到发展

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Well not if you look at the futures market, which is in backwardation now and it's predicting major drops in the price of oil.

如果你看看期货交易市场,现在正处于交割延期的时期,而这正预示了油价将要下跌

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I'm going to talk about one futures market that I have been instrumental in developing.

我会讲一个我研究的,对发展发挥了很大作用期货市场

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For example, when they started trading stock index futures, both these agencies thought it was in their turf because it involved both stock indexes and futures Anyway, Paulson is proposing merging these.

例如，当人们开始交易股票指数期货的时候，这两个机构都认为这个交易是在他们的管辖范围内的,因为这个交易既包括了股票指数也包括了期货,总之，鲍尔森是准备合并他俩。

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A futures market has a prediction going out years into the future of what every financial variable will be doing, so you can see the future in a sense through the futures prices.

一个期货交易市场,预测了未来几年,每个金融变量的变化,因此,在某种意义上,你们可以通过期货价格分析未来市场

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I'm not going to put Yale's entire portfolio in Google stock, I'm not going to go back and take Yale's entire portfolio to day-trade bond futures; in part, because it would be bad for me personally.

我不会用耶鲁的全部资产买谷歌股票,我也不会,用耶鲁的全部资产买债券期货,一方面是因为,这对我个人不利

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In many cases that is not the right way to think about futures prices, but there are very important futures markets that--In the next lecture I want to talk about the various kinds of futures markets that matter.

在许多情况下,我们不应该去,分析期货价格,但我们的期货交易市场很重要...,下节课我会讲,各种不同的期货交易市场

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