delivery contract
31Contract month — The month in which futures contracts may be satisfied by making or accepting a delivery. Also called value managers, those who assemble portfolios with relatively lower betas, lower price book and P/E ratios and higher dividend yields, seeing… …
32Contract of carriage — Admiralty law History …
33contract grades — The standard grades of commodities or instruments listed in the rules of the exchanges that must be met when delivering cash commodities against futures contracts. Grades are often accompanied by a schedule of discounts and premiums allowable for …
34delivery as an escrow — A delivery on some collateral condition, which must be consistent with the contract, on the happening of which condition alone the contract is to take effect. 28 Am J2d Escr § 1 …
35delivery points — The locations and facilities designated by a futures exchange where stocks of a commodity may be delivered in fulfillment of a futures contract, under procedures established by the exchange. Chicago Board of Trade glossary Locations designated by …
36contract specification — The legal document produced by the relevant exchange that sets out the details of a future or options contract, e.g. trading times, delivery procedures, quantities of underlying per one contract etc. The use of contract specifications leads to… …
37contract — A legally enforceable agreement, not contrary to any law, to do or not to do something. A contract involves two or more people or businesses; it sets forth what they will or will not do and can be either oral or written (though real estate and …
38Delivery Risk — The risk that a counterparty in a transaction may not be able to fulfill its side of the agreement by failing to deliver the underlying asset or the cash value of the contract. Also called settlement risk. In the foreign exchange context,… …
39Delivery/settlement risk — Credit risk on the delivery date, resulting in a loss of the incoming cash flow under any contract which entails the exchange of cash flows on the delivery date …
40contract month/year — The month and year in which a given contract becomes deliverable if it is not liquidated or offset before the date specified for termination of trading of that contract month. Also called the delivery month. Chicago Mercantile Exchange Glossary …
