When the rate of inflation outpaces the rate of interest generated on a savings or checking account, the investor loses money. In the United States, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the most widely used method of calculating inflation. Many people argue that indexing Social Security payments to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is insufficient. […]
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Each day, at 7:20 a.m. Central Time (8:20 a.m. Eastern Time), Dow Futures begin trading on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), one hour and ten minutes before the stock market opens. Is the Dow futures market open? Most people who follow the financial markets are aware that events in Asia and Europe can have
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Traders can lock in the price of an underlying asset or commodity using futures, also known as futures contracts. These contracts have predetermined prices and expiration dates that are known in advance. The month of expiration is used to identify futures. A December gold futures contract, for example, expires in December. What exactly are stock
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Assume Kelly, a former economist who is now an opera singer, has been asked to perform in the United Kingdom. Simultaneously, an American computer business manufactures and sells all of its computers in Germany, while a German company manufactures and sells all of its automobiles within American borders. Economists need to know what is and
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Sunday through Friday, electronic trading of crude oil futures is performed on the CME Globex trading platform from 6:00 p.m. U.S. to 5:00 p.m. U.S. ET. Contracts for crude oil futures are traded every calendar month, from January to December. When do crude oil futures contracts expire? When does the futures market start and stop
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CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS When the global financial crisis hit in 2008, Queen Elizabeth II famously remarked, “Why didn’t anyone see it coming?” when visiting the London School of Economics. The high inflation of 2021 should raise the same concern, particularly in the United States, where year-on-year increases in consumer prices reached a four-decade high of 7%
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Index futures are contracts that allow a trader to purchase or sell a financial index today and have it resolved at a later date. Traders speculate on the price direction of an index, such as the S&P 500, using index futures. What exactly are stock index futures? Index futures are contracts to purchase or sell
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To listen to the podcast, press play on the player above and follow along with the transcript below. In its current form, this transcript was created automatically and then edited for clarity. Between the audio and the text, there may be some discrepancies. Republican attempts to invalidate state-ordered congressional districting schemes in North Carolina and
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Stock index futures, such as the S&P 500 E-mini Futures (ES), reflect expectations for a stock index’s price at a later date, based on dividends and interest rates. Index futures are two-party agreements that are considered a zero-sum game because when one party wins, the other loses, and there is no net wealth transfer. While
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The highest year-over-year inflation rate recorded since the formation of the United States in 1776 was 29.78 percent in 1778. In the years since the CPI was introduced, the greatest inflation rate recorded was 19.66 percent in 1917. When was the highest inflation rate? Between 1914 and 2022, the United States’ inflation rate averaged 3.25
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