Futures Explained

Futures may mean:

Finance

• Futures contract, a tradable financial derivatives contract
• Futures exchange, a financial market where futures contracts are traded
• Futures (magazine), an American finance magazine

Music

• Futures (album), a 2004 album released by Jimmy Eat World
  • "Futures" (song), a single from the above album
• Futures (band), a London-based rock band

Social sciences

• Futures studies, multidisciplinary studies of patterns to determine the likelihood of future trends
• Futures (journal), an academic journal covering futures studies

Sports

• Futures Tour, official developmental golf tour of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA)
• Futures tennis tournaments

Other

• Futures and promises, high-level synchronization mechanisms (programming objects that act as proxies for results not yet determined)
• Futures of American Studies, a summer institute in American Studies at Dartmouth College
• Futures, a flash fiction feature in the journal Nature

See also

• Future (disambiguation)