A market in which futures contracts are bought and sold.
investors poured money into the energy futures markets
Example sentencesExamples
- Grain marketers traditionally use the futures market to protect themselves against major price movement.
- There are many reasons to use a hedging strategy in the forex futures market.
- We know of recent tumult in the Treasury futures market.
- In the wee hours of the following morning the stock index futures markets began to rally sharply.
- There is a huge battle going on in the gold futures market between the shorts and longs.