How Do Futures Contracts Work?

The post How Do Futures Contracts Work? by Benzinga Contributors appeared first on Benzinga. Visit Benzinga to get more great content like this. If you watched oil prices this week, you saw futures in action: the August WTI crude contract spiked to $91.62 per barrel on Thursday, then sank to an intraday low of $84.30 as headlines about a possible U.S.-Iran peace deal flipped hour by hour. Every one of those price swings happened in the futures market, … Continued The post How Do Futures Contracts Work? by Benzinga Contributors appeared first on Benzinga. Visit Benzinga to get more great content like this.