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S&P Futures trade with a multiplier, sized to correspond to $250 per point per contract. If the S&P Futures are trading at 2,000, a single futures contract would have a market value of $500,000. For every 1 point the S&P 500 Index fluctuates, the S&P Futures contract will increase or decrease $250. US Tax Advantages
Dow Futures contracts are used to hedge, or offset investment risk by commodity owners (i.e., farmers), or portfolios with undesirable risk exposure offset by the futures position. Quotes. CME Group provides live feeds for Dow Futures and these are published on various websites like Bloomberg.com, CNN Money, DowFutures.org.
Overview. Stock indices, such as the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq Composite, collapsed and rebounded very rapidly. The Dow Jones Industrial Average had its second biggest intraday point decline (from the opening) up to that point, plunging 998.5 points (about 9%), most within minutes, only to recover a large part of the loss.
WTI Crude Oil futures plunged 9.2% — the biggest drop in 2 weeks. The CBOE Volatility Index ( ^VIX ), Wall Street's "fear gauge" better known as the VIX settled below 20 for the first time since ...
Stocks gained ground on Tuesday amid a revival in the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield, as investors awaited an avalanche of earnings from tech giants and other major companies.. The Dow Jones ...
The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite ( ^IXIC) rallied back from lows to gain 0.2%. Fed officials forecast two more rate hikes this year after skipping a hike this meeting. Chair Jerome Powell ...
The Bloomberg Commodity Index ( BCOM) is a broadly diversified commodity price index distributed by Bloomberg Index Services Limited. The index was originally launched in 1998 as the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index ( DJ-AIGCI) and renamed to Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index ( DJ-UBSCI) in 2009, when UBS acquired the index from AIG.
The U.S. Dollar Index ( USDX, DXY, DX, or, informally, the "Dixie") is an index (or measure) of the value of the United States dollar relative to a basket of foreign currencies, [1] often referred to as a basket of U.S. trade partners' currencies. [2] The Index goes up when the U.S. dollar gains "strength" (value) when compared to other currencies.