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Commodity exchange

Asian option

Financial services; Commodity exchange

An option whose payoff depends on the average price of the underlying asset during some portion of the life of the option.

Interest rate futures

Financial services; Commodity exchange

Futures contracts traded on fixed income securities such as G.N.M.A.s, U.S. Treasury issues, or CDS. Currency is excluded from this category, even though interest rates are a factor in currency ...

Carrying charge

Financial services; Commodity exchange

For physical commodities such as grains and metals, the cost of storage space, insurance, and finance charges incurred by holding a physical commodity. In interest rate futures markets, it refers to ...

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 during that crop ...

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 produced during that crop ...

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 to the stocks ...

Forward months

Financial services; Commodity exchange

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

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