Futures
Encyclopedia
Finance
- Futures contractFutures contractIn 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 exchangeFutures exchangeA 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" (song)
- 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 promisesFutures and promisesIn 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 fictionFlash fictionFlash 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 NatureNature (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...