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futures market
noun
- a market in which futures contracts in commodities are traded.
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But to a large degree it is a futures market—investors are making daily bets about the future profits of companies.
From The Daily Beast
But the stock market is famously a futures market; investors try to anticipate what might happen to companies in the future.
From The Daily Beast
The price was high because 60 to 70 percent of the oil contracts in the futures market were held by speculators.
From The Daily Beast
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