The Emini (also known as the E-mini, ES, or Mini) is a futures contract that follows the S&P 500 stock market index. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) uses their Globex electronic trading platform to trade it. The contract symbol ES is traded for 23 1/2 hours a day, 5 days a week. Emini contracts can […]
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From 2016 through 2026, the United States’ share of global gross domestic product (GDP) adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP) Is the US economy worth 25% of the global economy? The United States is the world’s largest economy in terms of nominal GDP, and its impact on the global economy is enormous. In 2019, the
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Although both GDP and GNP conceptually represent the entire market value of all products and services produced during a given period, they differ in how they define the economy’s scope. GDP is a metric that represents the value of products and services generated inside the country’s geographical limits by both Americans and people from other
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Futures prices follow the same rules as cash bond pricing. The offered price will be a percentage of a bond’s par or maturity value, expressed in halves of 32nds. A $100,000 face value bond would cost $133,515.625 if the 30-year Treasury futures were trading at 133-165. 16-1/2 32nds, or 0.515625, is shown by the 165
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In 2016, real GDP increased by 1.6 percent (from the 2015 annual level to the 2016 annual level), compared to 2.6 percent in 2015. (table 1). What was the 2015 GDP growth rate? The Bureau of Economic Analysis, the government department in charge of compiling GDP estimates, reported that the economy increased 2.9 percent in
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The nominal GDP of a country is calculated using current prices and is not adjusted for inflation. Compare this to real GDP, which accounts for the impact of inflation on a country’s economic output. While both indices measure the same output, they are employed for quite different purposes: value changes versus volume changes. What exactly
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Based on purchasing power parity, GDP per capita (PPP). PPP GDP stands for buying power parity GDP, which is gross domestic product translated to foreign currencies using purchasing power parity rates. The purchasing power of an international dollar is equal to that of the US dollar in terms of GDP. What exactly is the distinction
Futures trading allows investors to speculate or hedge on the price movement of a securities, commodity, or financial instrument. Traders do this by purchasing a futures contract, which is a legally binding agreement to buy or sell an asset at a predetermined price at a future date. Grain growers could sell their wheat for forward
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When the gross domestic product (GDP) or other macroeconomic indices, such as unemployment, show negative growth for two or more quarters in a row, the economy is said to be in recession. In part, the link between unemployment and recession is largely semantic; official recession dates include a rise in unemployment as part of the
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Inflation is the gradual loss of a currency’s buying value over time. The increase in the average price level of a basket of selected goods and services in an economy over time can be used to calculate a quantitative estimate of the rate at which buying power declines. A rise in the general level of
