Futures may mean:
Finance
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Futures contract
In finance, a futures contract (sometimes called futures) is a standardized legal contract to buy or sell something at a predetermined price for delivery at a specified time in the future, between parties not yet known to each other. The item tr ...
, a tradable financial derivatives contract
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Futures exchange
A futures exchange or futures market is a central financial exchange where people can trade standardized futures contracts defined by the exchange. Futures contracts are derivatives contracts to buy or sell specific quantities of a commodity or ...
, a financial market where futures contracts are traded
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Modern Trader
''Modern Trader'' is a United States-based monthly print investment magazine. The publication was established in 1972 under the name ''Commodities''. The name was changed to ''Futures'' in September 1983 and ''Modern Trader'' in 2015.
The magaz ...
'', formerly Futures, an American finance magazine
Music
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''Futures'' (album), a 2004 album released by Jimmy Eat World
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"Futures" (song), a single from the above album
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Futures (band)
Futures were a four-piece rock band from Buckinghamshire, England. Futures received modest reviews and a smattering of fans while remaining unsigned with their debut Mini Album, The Holiday. The band were signed to self made label, Indigo, after ...
, a London-based rock band
Social sciences
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Futures studies
Futures studies, futures research or futurology is the systematic, interdisciplinary and holistic study of social and technological advancement, and other environmental trends, often for the purpose of exploring how people will live and wor ...
, multidisciplinary studies of patterns to determine the likelihood of future trends
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''Futures'' (journal), an academic journal covering futures studies
Sports
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Futures Tour
The Epson Tour, previously known as the LPGA Futures Tour, and known for sponsorship reasons between 2006 and 2010 as the Duramed Futures Tour and between 2012 and 2021 as the Symetra Tour, is the official developmental golf tour of the LPGA Tour ...
, official developmental golf tour of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA)
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Futures tennis tournaments
The ITF Men's World Tennis Tour (formerly ''ITF Men's Circuit'') is a series of professional tennis tournaments held around the world that are organized by the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The tour represents the lowest rung of the me ...
Other uses
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Futures
Futures may mean:
Finance
*Futures contract, a tradable financial derivatives contract
*Futures exchange, a financial market where futures contracts are traded
*''Modern Trader'', formerly Futures, an American finance magazine
Music
* ''Futures' ...
, artist name used by Futures Church, an Australian megachurch, for producing their music
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Futures and promises
In computer science, futures, promises, delays, and deferreds are constructs used for synchronization (computer science), synchronizing program execution (computing), execution in some concurrent programming languages. Each is an object that act ...
, two of several constructs used for high-level synchronization mechanisms in some computer programming languages
See also
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Future (disambiguation)
The future is the time after the present.
Future or The Future may also refer to:
Music Performers
* Future (rapper) (born 1983), American rapper
* The Human League, previously The Future, an English synth-pop band
* The Future X, a pop group ...
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Futures of American Studies, a summer institute in American Studies at Dartmouth College
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