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| Domain | Definition |
Agriculture | The specified month within which a futures contract matures and can be settled by delivery. Also referred to as contract month. (references) |
Finance | The month which is the subject of a futures contract and in which physical delivery must be made; a specific date within the month is prescribed for this purpose in the contact. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
For most futures contracts, at any given time, one contract will typically traded much more actively than others. This is called variously the front month or the top step contract.
Financial contracts (such as bonds, short term interest rates, foreign exchange and stock indexes) tend to expire quarterly, in March, June, September and December.
This table lists the conventional letter codes used in tickers to specify delivery month:
| January | F |
| February | G |
| March | H |
| April | J |
| May | K |
| June | M |
| July | N |
| August | Q |
| September | U |
| October | V |
| November | X |
| December | Z |
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Delivery month."
Crosswords: DELIVERY MONTH |
| Specialty definitions using "DELIVERY MONTH": Spot market ♦ to liquidate. (references) |
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| Language | Translations for "DELIVERY MONTH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Dutch | leveringsmaand (contracts month, terminal month), contracttermijn (contracts month, terminal month). (various references) | ||||
French | mois de cotation. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eliveryday onthmay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-i-l-m-n-o-r-t-v-y" | |
-3 letters: endothermy, hemelytron. | |
-4 letters: devilment, emotively, endotherm, evidently, heteronym, liverymen, modernity, overmined, overtimed, rhytidome. | |
-5 letters: deletion, delivery, demivolt, denotive, dethrone, deviltry, dimethyl, dolerite, domineer, dormient, elytroid, enormity, entirely, entoderm, entoiled, evildoer, heredity, hereinto, holytide, homelier, hotelier, hotelmen, hydromel, inverted, lientery, loitered, mentored, modernly, mothered, motherly, motleyer, mylonite, oriented, overedit, overheld, overidle, overlend, overlent, overmelt. | |
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