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Commodity exchange

backwardation

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Market situation in which futures prices are progressively lower in the distant delivery months. For instance, if the gold quotation for February is $160.00 per ounce and that for June is $155.00 per ...

contango

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Market situation in which prices in succeeding delivery months are progressively higher than in the nearest delivery month; the opposite of "backwardation."

secondary market

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Market where previously issued securities are bought and sold.

average farm price estimate

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Marketing-year weighted average price received by farmers.

runners

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Messengers who rush orders received by phone clerks to brokers for execution in the pit.

open outcry

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Method of public auction for making verbal bids and offers in the trading pits or rings of futures exchanges.

discount basis

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Method of quoting securities where the price is expressed as a annualized discount from maturity value.

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