Futures
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Finance

  • Futures contract
    Futures contract
    In finance, a futures contract is a standardized contract between two parties to exchange a specified asset of standardized quantity and quality for a price agreed today with delivery occurring at a specified future date, the delivery date. The contracts are traded on a futures exchange...

    , a tradable financial contract
  • Futures exchange
    Futures exchange
    A futures exchange or futures market is a central financial exchange where people can trade standardized futures contracts; that is, a contract to buy specific quantities of a commodity or financial instrument at a specified price with delivery set at a specified time in the future. These types of...

    , a financial market where futures contracts are traded
  • Futures (magazine)
    Futures (magazine)
    Futures magazine is a U.S.-based monthly magazine about commodity futures contracts, stocks, options, derivatives, and forex.Another periodical called Futures is a journal on policy, planning and futures studies....

    , an American finance magazine

Music

  • Futures (album)
    Futures (album)
    Futures is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock/emo band Jimmy Eat World, released on October 19, 2004. Futures was led by the successful single "Pain", followed by "Work" and "Futures"...

    , a 2004 release by Jimmy Eat World
    • "Futures" (song)
      Futures (song)
      "Futures" is the title track of Jimmy Eat World's fifth album. It was the released as a promo 7", pressed on clear vinyl. It reached #27 on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart in 2005....

      , a single from the above album
  • Futures (band)
    Futures (band)
    Futures is a four-piece rock band from Buckinghamshire, England. Futures received critical acclaim and widespread popularity whilst remaining unsigned and in June 2010 the band signed to Mercury Records.-History:...

    , a London-based rock band.

Social sciences

  • Futures studies, multidisciplinary studies of patterns to determine the likelihood of future trends
  • Futures (journal)
    Futures (journal)
    Futures is an international, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal concerned with futures studies. It is published by Elsevier. As of 2009, the editor-in-chief is Ziauddin Sardar.-External links:*...

    , an international futures studies journal

Other

  • Futures and promises
    Futures and promises
    In computer science, future, promise, and delay refer to constructs used for synchronization in some concurrent programming languages. They describe an object that acts as a proxy for a result that is initially not known, usually because the computation of its value has not yet completed.The term...

    , computer programming objects that act as proxies for results that are not yet determined
  • "Futures", a flash fiction
    Flash fiction
    Flash fiction is a style of fictional literature or fiction of extreme brevity. There is no widely accepted definition of the length of the category...

     feature in the journal Nature
    Nature (journal)
    Nature, first published on 4 November 1869, is ranked the world's most cited interdisciplinary scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports...

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