Futures contracts based on financial instruments, such as Treasury Bonds, CDs, currencies or indexes.
A type of futures contract which the underlying "commodity" consists of a certain amount of some type of financial asset, such as debt securities, foreign currencies, or market baskets of common stocks.
A futures contact on a financial claim such as a bond, currency or deposit.
Futures contracts concerned with transactions of financial instruments, as distinct from physical commodities. Financial futures available in Australia include bank bill futures, Share Price Index (SPI) futures and Commonwealth bond futures. The essential value of financial futures is that they allow investors to hedge against adverse movements in interest rates or share prices. Financial futures can also be used by speculators who, while having no involvement as buyers or sellers in the underlying securities, can trade in futures as a means of profiting from expected price movements.
Contracts for the purchase or sale of financial instruments at a later date.
Futures contracts that are concerned with the buying and selling of financial instruments rather than physical commodities.
Exchange-traded contracts specifying a future date of delivery, or receipt of a certain amount of a specified tangible or intangible.
Futures contracts based on interest-rate instruments (T-bonds. T-bills, etc.), foreign currencies and indexes.
We view futures contracts as substitutes for cash market securities: Treasury Bond futures, for instance, can be an attractive substitute for Treasury Bonds when priced "cheap". That is we can earn a higher rate of return on the future with virtually no additional risk.
Futures contracts (such as; bank bil futures, Share Price Index (SPI) futures and Commonwealth bond futures) concerned with transactions of financial instruments, as distinct from physical commodities. They allow investors to hedge against movements in interest rates or share prices.
Futures contracts based on financial instruments such as U.S. Treasury bonds, CDs and other interest-sensitive issues, currencies and stock market indicators. (See: Futures, Stock Index Futures)
Include interest rate futures, currency futures, and index futures.
Futures contracts that, rather than being concerned with the buying and selling of physical commodities, are concerned with the buying and selling of financial instruments.
Written agreements on the delivery of a security/commodity at a specific date in the future. They are used extensively both to hedge risk and to take risk.
contracts to buy or sell foreign currency at a set rate in the future