Commodity exchange

Commodity exchange

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cross rate

Financial services; Commodity exchange

In foreign exchange, the price of one currency in terms of another currency in the market of a third country. For example, the exchange rate between Japanese yen and Euros would be considered a cross ...

credit spread

Financial services; Commodity exchange

The difference between the yield on the debt securities of a particular corporate or sovereign borrower (or a class of borrowers with a specified credit rating) and the yield of similar maturity ...

delta-based margining

Financial services; Commodity exchange

An option margining system used by some exchanges that equates the changes in option premiums with the changes in the price of the underlying futures contract to determine risk factors upon which to ...

post-trade transparency

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Describes markets where basic data on recent transactions (such as the price and terms of the transactions) is promptly and routinely reported to the market participants and the public.

single stock future

Financial services; Commodity exchange

A futures contract on a single stock as opposed to a stock index. Single stock futures were illegal in the U.S. prior to the passage of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000.

confirmation statement

Financial services; Commodity exchange

A statement sent by a futures commission merchant to a customer when a futures or options position has been initiated which typically shows the price and the number of contracts bought and sold.

open contracts

Financial services; Commodity exchange

The total number of futures contracts long or short in a delivery month or market that has been entered into and not yet liquidated by an offsetting transaction or fulfilled by delivery.