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11Commodity — A commodity is food, metal, or another physical substance that investors buy or sell, usually via futures contracts. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * commodity com‧mod‧i‧ty [kəˈmɒdti ǁ kəˈmɑː ] noun commodities PLURALFORM [countable]… …
12Futures contract — Financial markets Public market Exchange Securities Bond market Fixed income Corporate bond Government bond Municipal bond …
13Wheat — This article is about the plant. For other uses, see Wheat (disambiguation). Wheat Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranke …
14Commodity Market — A physical or virtual marketplace for buying, selling and trading raw or primary products. For investors purposes there are currently about 50 major commodity markets worldwide that facilitate investment trade in nearly 100 primary commodities.… …
15softs — Tropical commodities ( commodity) such as coffee, sugar, and cocoa. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * softs softs ➔ soft commodity * * * Soft commodities such as sugar, coffee and cocoa. In contrast with commodities such as metals, grains… …
16Commodity — Wares redirects here. For the online distribution of copyrighted goods, see Warez …
17Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange - CSCE — A commodities exchange formed in 1979 for trading coffee, sugar and cocoa futures. The exchange has its roots in the 1882 Coffee Exchange, which added sugar in 1914 and cocoa in 1979. In 1998, the CSCE became a subsidiary of the New York Board of …
18commodity — 1) A raw material traded on a commodity market, such as grain, coffee, cocoa, wool, cotton, jute, rubber, pork bellies, or orange juice (sometimes known as soft commodities) or base metals and other solid raw materials (known as hard commodities) …
19Backwardation — is a futures market term: the situation in which, and the amount by which, the price of a commodity for future delivery is lower than the spot price, or a far future delivery price lower than a nearer future delivery. One says that the forward… …
20Normal backwardation — The graph depicts how the price of a single forward contract will behave through time in relation to the expected future price at any point time. A contract in backwardation will increase in value until it equals the spot price of the underlying… …
