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futures market

noun

  1. 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.

But the stock market is famously a futures market; investors try to anticipate what might happen to companies in the future.

The price was high because 60 to 70 percent of the oil contracts in the futures market were held by speculators.

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