Futures may mean:
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
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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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''Futures'' (magazine), 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, 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 l ...
, 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
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)
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Futures of American Studies, 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
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Future (disambiguation)
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