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		Definition of index futures in English: index futuresplural noun Contracts to buy a range of shares at an agreed price but delivered and paid for later.  Example sentencesExamples -  In Osaka, the near-term December Nikkei 225 index futures contract dropped 150 points to 10,450.
 -  Market players had been braced for heightened volatility due to the expiration of stock options, index options, index futures and single-stock futures.
 -  An investor buying index futures is investing less than his counterpart who invests in the cash market.
 -  The index futures for October delivery rose 0.6 percent to 5,889.
 -  The other important aspect of index futures is that the contracts are settled on a cash basis.
 -  They're already offered at nine exchanges around the world, yet together they account for only 1% of the total trading volume of the index futures market.
 -  Are index futures such as the S & P 500 or Nasdaq 100 exchange-traded funds up or down in pre-market?
 
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