What is a Futures Contract? A futures contract is a derivative that gives the buyer leveraged exposure to a commodity asset. Future contracts give the buyer the obligation to buy a specific asset at a ...

Index futures are futures contracts where the underlying asset is a stock index. These financial derivatives allow investors to buy or sell the future value of a stock index at a predetermined price ...

Modulus, a US-based developer of ultra-high-performance technology that powers Fortune 500 firms; government agencies and laboratories; and leading research universities, announced that the company ...

In its most recent earnings, Nike Inc(NYSE: NKE) management said that "futures orders" were up 12% worldwide year over year, or 17% accounting for currency fluctuations.But what are futures orders, ...

Tim Smith has 20+ years of experience in the financial services industry, both as a writer and as a trader. A futures spread is a trading strategy in which a trader holds both a long and a short ...