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Backwardation

Backwardation is a market condition where the price of a commodity's forward or futures contract price is trading below the spot price.

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Backwardation

Nodes29
Edges28
Triples48
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.068966
Components1

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related to References · 19
Backwardation → Annual ConferenceLME, Archived, Articles, Contango, Encyclopædia Britannica, International Precious Metals Institute, InternationalNew Orleans, January, London Metal Exchange, March, Mike Riess, Modern Market Manipulation, September, Stock Exchange, Stock Market, Temporary Suspension, Warrants Archived, Wayback Machine, Website
related to Examples · 10
Backwardation → Copper, During, In, Iran, March, Notable, Sumitomo, Sumitomo Corporation, The, Yasuo Hamanaka
related to Normal backwardation · 9
Backwardation → He, In, John Hicks, John Maynard Keynes, Keynes, Money, Normal, This, Treatise
related to Origin of the term · 5
Backwardation → England, It, Settlement, The, This
is a · 1
Backwardation → market condition where the price of a commodity's forward or futures contract price is trading below the spot price.The opposite of backwardation is contango

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price futures market forward contango spot prices cost oil future commodities seller store storage however also stock expected contract money

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Backwardationis amarket condition where the price of a commodity's forward or futures contract price is trading below the spot price.The opposite of backwardation is contango0.90text
moneyinstance ofCommodities0.80text
precious metals are typically in contangoinstance ofCommodities0.80text
because the seller of futures requires a premium to compensate for the opportunity costinstance ofCommodities0.80text
oilinstance ofoccasional backwardation is relatively common.Consider a commodity0.80text
Backwardationrelated to ExamplesNotable0.60section
Backwardationrelated to ExamplesCopper0.60section
Backwardationrelated to ExamplesYasuo Hamanaka0.60section
Backwardationrelated to ExamplesSumitomo Corporation0.60section
Backwardationrelated to ExamplesSumitomo0.60section
Backwardationrelated to ExamplesIn0.60section
Backwardationrelated to ExamplesMarch0.60section

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