What is "futures market"

Usage examples of "futures market".

Listing her latest port of departure as Sol 1, Earth, she'd logged goods for sale and made a modest trade of luxury goods on the futures market even before docking, a procedure legal here at Pell.

And they, the ARTOS folks, need to visit the futures market and experimental farms and see new wheat clones and stuff: They need to know the roots of their art or industry, whichever you call it.

The disappearing billing records, the insider futures market trading, the nefarious discrediting of women like Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey (and likely Paula Jones) who were simply telling the truth, the denial of the Lewinsky relationship - did these all leave their mark?

He added that while the Defense Department was supposed to be imaginative, 'it sounds like maybe they got too imaginative' with the online futures market plan.

This time an old SAS colleague had picked him up, and he had spent one hectic, improbable summer punting on the Futures Market, with wretched lack of success.

I bet if the Chicago futures market started selling plutonium futures, Ethan would be in like spit.

An abstract mathematician probably doesn't have anywhere near our most junior councillor's understanding of the interstellar futures market or the pros and cons of a medical care system for merchanters on Union stations.

The trades are administered and run by the accountants and dealers for their Kurian Lords, seeking the best deal in living bodies per ton in what might be called a futures market for those who have no future.

Which, I don't mind telling you, is a real waste of an opportunity in the interplanetary futures market.

Under the advisement of his broker, Williams had bought heavily into the genomic futures market, but not before doing his homework.