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What is Futures Market

Chapter 168
Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization
A financial market where people can trade standardized futures contracts that entitle the buyer to purchase certain products at specified price and agreeable delivery time in the future.
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Portfolio Procurement in Supply Chain Management
Min Shi (California State University, Los Angeles, USA) and Wei Yu (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA)
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5202-6.ch168
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Pricing Computational Resources in Grid Economies
A market in which goods are sold that are to be delivered at a certain point in the future, at a specified price.
Published in Chapter: Pricing Computational Resources in Grid Economies; From: Handbook of Research on Grid Technologies and Utility Computing: Concepts for Managing Large-Scale Applications
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