futures exchange
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- noun
- Specialized
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bolsa de futuros
- Investors often use a futures exchange to hedge against potential price fluctuations in the market.
- ICE futures exchange
- U.S. futures exchange
Most of the silver that's traded is traded on futures exchanges.
- Most of the silver that's traded is traded on futures exchanges.
- The Dojima Rice Exchange had become the first futures exchange.
Examples
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In regard to the organization of the futures exchange, it is essential that the exchange house possesses financial integrity and neutrality in relation to the participants in the market.
Academic text (1992) -
The futures exchange allows traders to buy and sell contracts for commodities like oil and wheat.
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So now our futures exchanges sell options on futures.
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When opening this type of contract, the futures exchange will give the minimum amount of money that must be deposited into your margin account.
Blog text (29) -
Prices underlying these contracts are termed futures prices and are determined in an open auction organized in futures markets often referred to as futures exchanges.
Academic text (1992) -
She spent more than a decade at Dow Jones covering the Chicago-based futures exchanges.
Blog text (6) -
The need for assuring the neutrality of the futures exchange and open access to the transmission net will also be crucial for the success of futures trading in these countries.
Academic text (1992) -
Borrowing in low-cost yen to finance investments in Europe while hedging against the yen's rise on a U.S. futures exchange is no longer exotic.
Academic text (2007) -
All transactions in futures contracts are undertaken through brokers approved by the relevant futures exchange, and the actual settlement is effected through a clearing-house facility provided by the futures exchange responsible for trading in the contract.
Academic text (1992) -
During the meeting, we discussed the impact of new regulations on the local futures exchange.
Synonyms
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A place where people buy and sell stocks
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A place where buyers and sellers agree to exchange goods later at a fixed price
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A market where people buy and sell raw materials like oil, grain and metals, often for future delivery
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An organized market where people buy and sell raw materials, often for delivery in the future
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A market where people buy and sell raw materials like oil or grain to be delivered later
A market where people buy and sell contracts to deliver goods or money later
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built: 'futures' (agreements to buy or sell assets later) modifies 'exchange' (a market for trading), so together they denote a market where futures are traded. This modifier+head pattern is regular in English and common across languages, so a learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Futures exchange comes from the simple idea of a market where people trade futures, meaning 'promises to buy or sell later', and the exchange, the place where buyers and sellers meet to trade. Imagine a farmer and a buyer agreeing now on the price of next year's crop; that image shows why the phrase means 'a market for contracts about the future' and is used to manage price risk.