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'', 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), 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, official developmental golf tour of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA)
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Futures tennis tournaments
Other uses
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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)
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Futures of American Studies, a summer institute in American Studies at Dartmouth College
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