futures market
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈfjuːtʃərz ˈmɑrkɪt/
- Specialized
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mercado de futuros
- Traders closely watch the futures market to anticipate price changes for commodities like corn and soybeans.
- commodity futures market
- electricity futures market
- development of futures market
There was no viable chicken futures market at the time.
- There was no viable chicken futures market at the time.
- That instantly tanked Dow futures markets as people were fearful.
- This pushed more traders into the futures market, where they sold futures contracts as a hedge against falling stock prices.
Examples
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Participation by large corporations in futures markets for their major inputs or outputs is not an unknown phenomenon.
Academic text (1992) -
The second section then examines the case for futures markets for electricity in terms of the criteria mentioned in section one.
Academic text (1992) -
The growth of the futures market has changed the nature of supply problems.
Academic text (2004) -
There was no viable chicken futures market at the time.
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Both of these effects could lead to a collapse of the futures market.
Academic text (1992) -
If indeed market imperfections exist, the April 1990 opening of a gas futures market could help to correct them.
Academic text (1991) -
Actual oil sellers use the futures market to limit their downside, but do it at a cost.
Blog text (6) -
This pushed more traders into the futures market, where they sold futures contracts as a hedge against falling stock prices.
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Let's check the futures market for the FOMC rate projections.
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In today's transparent oil market, prices are based on futures markets or other formulas.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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5.6
A market where people trade standard agreements to buy or sell goods and shares later
How Immediate
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward noun–noun composition: 'futures' (agreements to buy or sell later) + 'market' (place for trading) yields 'a market for futures contracts', so the meaning is directly derivable from the parts. This X+market pattern is a common, cross-linguistic construction, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Futures market comes from old farming and trading when a farmer and a buyer would agree now on a price for a crop to be delivered later. The word futures points to the 'future' and market is the place for the deal, so a futures market today is where people buy and sell agreements to lock prices for things that will arrive later.