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Finance

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Futures contract In finance, a futures contract (sometimes called a 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 asset ...
, a tradable financial derivatives contract *
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 f ...
, a financial market where futures contracts are traded * ''Futures'' (magazine), an American finance magazine


Music

* ''Futures'' (album), a 2004 album released by Jimmy Eat World **
Futures (song) ''Futures'' is the fifth studio album by American rock band Jimmy Eat World, released on October 19, 2004, through Interscope Records. After touring in support of ''Bleed American'' (2001) for two years, the band returned home and began worki ...
, a single from the above album *
Futures (band) Futures were a four-piece rock band from Buckinghamshire, England. Futures received modest reviews and a smattering of fans whilst remaining unsigned with their debut Mini Album, The Holiday. The band were signed to self made label, Indigo, aft ...
, a London-based rock band


Social sciences

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Futures studies Futures studies, futures research, futurism 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 li ...
, multidisciplinary studies of patterns to determine the likelihood of future trends * ''Futures'' (journal), an academic journal covering futures studies


Sports

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Futures Tour The Epson Tour, previously known as the LPGA Futures Tour, and known for sponsorship reasons between 2006 and 2010 as the Duramed Futures Tour and between 2012 and 2021 as the Symetra Tour, is the official developmental golf tour of the LPGA Tour ...
, official developmental golf tour of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) *
Futures tennis tournaments The ITF World Tennis Tour (formerly known as the ''ITF Men's World Tennis Tour'', and previously ''ITF Men's Circuit'') is a series of professional tennis tournaments held around the world that are organized by the International Tennis Federation. ...


Other

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Futures and promises In computer science, future, promise, delay, and deferred refer to constructs used for synchronizing program execution in some concurrent programming languages. They describe an object that acts as a proxy for a result that is initially unknown ...
, high-level synchronization mechanisms (programming objects that act as proxies for results not yet determined) *
Futures of American Studies The Futures of American Studies is a weeklong academic summer institute dedicated to presenting new work and critiquing the field of American Studies held at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The first Futures of American Studies Institut ...
, a summer institute in American Studies at Dartmouth College *Futures, a
flash fiction Flash fiction is a fictional work of extreme brevity that still offers character and plot development. Identified varieties, many of them defined by word count, include the six-word story; the 280-character story (also known as " twitterature"); ...
feature in the journal ''Nature''


See also

* Future (disambiguation) {{disambiguation