contract trading

He was closely involved in the development of the futures contract trading industry in London.

And without Chicago, being the transportation hub of the nation's breadbasket, was the most logical location for the agricultural commodities futures contract trading business.

The Dutch derogatorily described tulip contract trading as windhandel (literally "wind trade"), because no bulbs were actually changing hands.

Indeed, the value of the yuan briefly surpassed the Hong Kong dollar's value in forward contract trading on Tuesday.

We are now in a position to find the fair price of the futures contracts trading on LIFFE.

Contract Trading (Business Supply)

Some futures contract trading was closed for an hour in Chicago on Tuesday, Oct. 20, and some regulators think this prevented a steeper fall.

The November 1999 creation of the EnronOnline trading website allowed the company to better manage its contracts trading business.

"There are innumerable vehicles in which to do so, Lee, the most lucrative probably being Eurodollar contracts trading on the International Monetary Market in Chicago.

The Chicago Board Options Exchanges said yesterday that it had opened a "routine investigation" into the HFS options contract trading preceding the deal's announcement.

The ZCE, which started with forward contract trading, launched its first futures contracts on five agricultural products - wheat, corn, soybean, green bean and sesame on May 28, 1993.

"Beans collapsed like a stone," with the November soybean contract trading within a 30-cents-a-bushel range during the opening minutes, said Victor Lespinasse, a trader with Dean Witter Reynolds.

PROFESSIONAL traders often spot slight discrepancies in price between two similar products, like a gold contract trading in London and one trading in New York.

If the futures contracts trading in Chicago for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index falls 12 points, the equivalent of about 90 Dow points, the contracts will not be permitted to fall further for 30 minutes.

As Enron became the largest seller of natural gas in North America by 1992, its gas contracts trading earned earnings before interest and taxes of $122 million, the second largest contributor to the company's net income.

With more than 30,000 Eurodollar contracts trading on an average day in Singapore, compared with fewer than 2,000 on Globex, Simex, as the Singapore exchange is known, offers traders far greater liquidity.

Although contract trading began with traditional commodities such as grains, meat and livestock, exchange trading has expanded to include metals, energy, currency and currency indexes, equities and equity indexes, government interest rates and private interest rates.

Crude oil became the world's most actively traded commodity, and the NYMEX Division light sweet crude oil futures contract becoming the world's most liquid form for crude oil trading, as well as the world's largest-volume futures contract trading on a physical commodity.

From this, they concluded that on the day a war begins, the cumulative effect of the buildup to war would be a 20 percent drop in the S.& P. With the $10 contract trading at $7.50, the professors believe that 75 percent of the overall 20 percent drop has already occurred.