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unusual facts about Futures


Georgia Anderson

From there, she put her education to good use and found herself working in Futures and Forex as a broker on Wall Street, which inspired her to author a beginner's guide on the subject: ‘Technical Analysis For Day Trading of Forex and Futures’.


2006 Duramed FUTURES Tour

In 2006, the FUTURES Tour held its first major tournament.

Abelard Snazz

Moore's short Future Shocks stories were collected in the late 1980s and reprinted in two volumes by Titan Books as Shocking Futures (1986) and Twisted Times (1987).

After Capitalism: Economic Democracy in Action

"Transformative Strategies and the Futures of the Prout Movement" by Dr. Sohail Inayatullah.

Arthur Forwood

The brothers made a fortune "first from wartime speculation and blockade running, and then from exploiting telegraph and cotton futures".

Association of Professional Futurists

The ten 'most important futures works' recognized by the APF in that year included Peter Schwartz's The Art of the Long View, Wendell Bell's Foundations of Futures Studies: Human Science for a New Era, Bertrand de Jouvenel's L'Art de la Conjecture (The Art of Conjecture), and Ray Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines.

Blaze Berdahl

On July 15, 2007, Berdahl married Stephen M. Tvardek, an S&P futures trader, at the Onteora Mountain House in Boiceville, New York.

Brite Futures

After much anticipation, Brite Futures' rerelease of Glistening Pleasure, entitled Glistening Pleasure 2.0 (referring to Justin Bieber's My World 2.0,) is up for sale on Amazon and iTunes as of July 15, 2010, making both albums have an exact two-year gap between their release dates.

CBOT

Chicago Board of Trade, futures and options exchange in Chicago, Illinois

Corn Products Refining Co. v. Commissioner

The company bought corn futures to protect their future corn supply and pricing and would sell the futures if it had excess inventory corn for its processes.

Derby 10k

The race is organised by Derbyshire charity Sporting Futures and has been sponsored by the Derbyshire Building Society since 2003.

Donald Pease

Donald E. Pease, professor of English, Dartmouth College and Director of the Futures of American Studies Institute

Douglas G. Bergeron

From 1990 through 1999, Bergeron served in a number of executive management positions at SunGard Data Systems, including Managing Director of SunGard Capital Markets N.A., President of SunGard Futures Systems, and Group CEO of SunGard Brokerage Systems Group.

Equity derivative

Indices for futures include well-established indices such as S&P 500, FTSE 100, DAX, CAC 40 and other G12 country indices.

Futures at Fenway

The brainchild of Boston mayor Thomas Menino, the inaugural Futures at Fenway in 2006 was believed to be the first minor-league game(s) played at Fenway since 1977, when the park hosted the Eastern League All-Star Game.

Futures exchange

One of the earliest written records of futures trading is in Aristotle's Politics.

Futures Without Violence

In 2007, Futures Without Violence and UNICEF partnered to develop and distribute an International Coaches Manual that includes quotes and endorsement from stars such as David Beckham, Emmanuel Adebayor, and Thierry Henry.

A national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in collaboration with Futures Without Violence, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Blue Shield of California Foundation are investing $18 million in 11 Start Strong communities across the country to identify and evaluate best practices in prevention to stop dating violence and abuse before it starts.

George Kateb

In addition, Kateb has served as a member of the editorial board or consulting editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas, the Library of America, Alternative Futures, the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, and Raritan Quarterly Review.

Guotai Junan Futures

With a registered capital of 160 million RMB, Guotai Junan Futures was established by Guotai Junan Securities and became a wholly owned subsidiary of it.

Hunters Oak Golf Classic

The event was part of the Futures Tour's schedule from 2003 to 2007 and was held at Hunters Oak Golf Club in Queenstown, Maryland.

James Monroe Smith

The larger Fenner & Beane brokerage house in New Orleans had asked Smith to withdraw $375,000 in LSU bonds which he had posted as collateral for speculating in wheat futures.

Janet Tavakoli

She taught "Derivatives: Futures, Forwards, Options and Swaps" at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business as adjunct associate professor of finance.

Joe Ritchie

Ritchie left the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) in 1976, and returned to trading futures at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT).

Joseph S. Forte

The rest may have been lost in trading in futures contracts on the S&P 500 index, foreign currencies, or metals.

Kay McMahon

In 2002, McMahon and business partner, Eloise Trainor, Founder of the LPGA Futures Tour (now the Symetra Tour), rebranded into eduKaytion Golf, an exclusive golf education company located at the Cranwell Resort, Spa and Golf Club in Lenox, Massachusetts, since January 2012.

Mark Rubin

Rubin has continued his athletic success even while in the business world at Barclays on their fixed income futures sales desk.

Marva J. Daniel Futures Preparatory School

Futures Academy is located in the Fruit Belt of Buffalo's East Side, and a few blocks away from the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

MF Global

MF Global's former parent, then known as ED&F Man, diversified from pure cash commodities into commodity futures in the late 1970s, and established the Anderson Man futures brokerage in 1981.

Monsieur Stigmonus

Stigmonus showed Hal two possible futures for Helen: one in which she would grow to be “The Redeemer”, a being who would “lead this planet out of misery and into the Golden Age”, and another in which, one way or another, “she’ll come to a tragic end,” often depicted as being by her own hand.

Naisbitt

John Naisbitt (born 1929), American author and public speaker in the area of futures studies

Oil futures drunk-trading incident

As a result of the trading, PVM Oil Futures suffered losses of almost $10 million and Perkins was dismissed, later being banned from trading by Financial Services Authority (FSA).

Oonagh McDonald

McDonald is currently a director of the British Portfolio Trust, Complaints Commissioner for the London Metal Exchange, ICE Futures and Virt-x and a member of International Monetary Fund's Expert Roster.

Peter Mayo

He sits on the Editorial Advisory Boards of several international journals including International Journal of Lifelong Education (Taylor & Francis), Journal of Transformative Education (Sage), Policy Futures in Education (Symposium), Encylopaideia (ClueB, Bologna) and Educational Philosophy and Theory (Wiley-Blackwell).

Refco

Man Financial kept the majority of the Refco futures businesses after selling Refco Overseas Ltd (Refco's European operation) to Marathon Asset Management who then relaunched the business as Marex Financial Limited.

The 1978 "cattle futures" trading scandal was played out in Refco accounts, the period during which the Hillary Rodham cattle futures controversy originated.

Richard Slaughter

In 2009 the special issue of Futures on Integral Futures that was edited by Slaughter was voted one of the "most important futures works of 2008" by the Association of Professional Futurists.

Robert D. Crane

In 1966, he left to become Director of Third World Studies at the first professional futures forecasting center, The Hudson Institute, led by Herman Kahn.

Roger Gray

Gray was a consultant for such policy and regulatory bodies as the Chicago Board of Trade, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as well as an expert witness in a number of famous manipulation and tax cases.

He published a 1963 study concluding that the Onion Futures Act, which was designed to prevent market manipulation in onion prices by banning onion futures trading, had actually increased onion price volatility.

Rolta India Ltd

Rolta is listed on the Indian National Stock Exchange (NSE) in the cash and futures and options segments, and forms part of CNX IT, Nifty Midcap 50 and CNX 500 indices.

TFX

Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX), a futures exchange for trading futures contracts

Toilet circuit

Rock Sound TV has used the "Toilet Circuit" moniker to film a series of acoustic performances filmef in the grimiest locations at music venues across the UK, featuring bands like The Blackout, Thrice, Futures, Lights, Vessels and Deaf Havana.

United States energy law

In August 2008, it was revealed that oil speculators had increased the volatility of the price of oil; Congressman John Dingell criticized the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for failing to scrutinize oil futures traders, in particular the Swiss company Vitol.

Walter Truett Anderson

He is on the editorial boards of several journals including The Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Futures: The Journal of Policy, Planning, and Futures Studies, The Journal of Futures Studies (Tamkang University, Taiwan), and Cadmus: The Journal of the South East Asian Division of the World Academy of Art and Science (Zagreb).

Wisconsin model

Later work initiated by Archie O. Haller and implemented by Joseph Woelfel and Edward L. Fink was able to survey adolescent students and identify the specific persons who communicated most with them about education and occupation, and who served as examples for their own educational and occupational futures.

Yoonew

If a fan believes his favorite team will reach the championship game, he can purchase ticket futures months in advance at a low prices which are market-based.

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