Investors can use a variety of stock market instruments to profit from speculation on future asset movements. An index futures contract is a financial instrument that you can use to speculate on the ...

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This article was written by David Mullen, Product Manager for Core Fixed-Income Analytics, and Fateen Sharaby, Business Manager for Index-Linked Products at Bloomberg. Credit futures, which started ...

Index futures, also referred to as stock index futures or equity index futures, are futures contracts where the buyer and seller agree to buy or sell a stock index at a future price and date. Index ...