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Spot Contract
A spot contract is an agreement to buy or sell an asset today. The price agreed upon in this contract is referred to as the spot price.
Forward Price
The forward price is the agreed upon price of an asset in a forward contract. The difference between the forward and the spot price is the forward premium (if percentage is positive, meaning the forward price is higher than the … Continue reading
Forward Contract
A forward contract is a non-standardized contract between two parties that establishes the price of a commodity to be delivered at a specific date in the future. It differs from a spot contract which is an agreement to buy or … Continue reading
Futures Price
A futures price is the price in a futures contract that specifies the amount of money to be paid for a commodity to be delivered at a later date.
Futures Contract
A futures contract is a standardized contract for selling or buying an asset, such as a physical commodity or a financial instrument, at a specified future date and at a price agreed today (the futures price). The contracts are traded … Continue reading
Stochastic
Stochastic means random. A stochastic process is one whose behavior is non-deterministic, which means that a system’s subsequent state is determined both by the process’s predictable actions and by a random element.
Deterministic
A system in which no randomness is involved in the development of future states of the system.
Spot Price
Current market price of some product, commodity, security or currency ready for immediate delivery. Also referred to as spot rate. It is the price at which the asset changes hands on the spot date.
Archer Daniels Midland
Country: USA Website: http://www.adm.com/en-US/Pages/default.aspx Ticker Symbol: ADM Stock Exchange: New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Industry: Food Products Issue Type: Common Stock (Price) Company Profile: ADM is the largest processors of corn, wheat, cocoa and oilseeds. ADM resells these commodities primarily … Continue reading
High Price: Losers
Sara Lee (NYSE-SLE) Campbell Soup (NYSE-CPB) General Mills (NYSE-GIS) Kraft Foods (NYSE-KFT) PepsiCo (NYSE:PEP) Quaker Oats Company Nestle (SIX:NESN) Nisshin Seifun Group (TSE-2002) Nissin Food Products (TSE-2897)