The oil futures market is very significant because it represents the price of energy on dates into the future.

石油期货市场对我们来说意义重大,因为它代表,未来的能源价格

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A futures market has a prediction going out years into the future of what every financial variable will be doing, so you can see the future in a sense through the futures prices.

一个期货交易市场,预测了未来几年,每个金融变量的变化,因此,在某种意义上,你们可以通过期货价格分析未来市场

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