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Financial services

Related to any service provided by the finance industry, which encompasses a broad range of organisations that deal with the management of money.

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forward months

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Futures contracts, currently trading, calling for later or distant delivery. See Deferred Futures.

ending stocks

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Grain and oilseed commodities not consumed during the current marketing year. These are the stocks "carried over" into the following marketing year and added to the stocks ...

carryover

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Grain and oilseed commodities not consumed during the marketing year and remaining in storage at year's end. These stocks are "carried over" into the next marketing year and added ...

beginning stocks

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Grain and oilseed commodities not consumed during the previous marketing year. These are the stocks "carried over" into the current marketing year and added to the stocks produced ...

cross-hedging

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Hedging a cash commodity using a different but related futures contract when there is no futures contract for the cash commodity being hedged and the cash and futures markets ...

cross-hedge

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Hedging a cash market position in a futures contract for a different but price-related commodity.

crack

Financial services; Commodity exchange

In energy futures, the simultaneous purchase of crude oil futures and the sale of petroleum product futures to establish a refining margin. See Gross Processing Margin.