What are the real-life applications of stock or index futures?

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Emmanuel Vijayanand Murray

It helps to understand investor outlook on the future and is an input in taking Investment Decisions.

Dickson Adom

The stock or index futures are very important in the long term investment planning of companies. It offers a great understanding that helps in the decision-making processes involving how much to invest and in which areas should investments be made by companies to fetch large market share.

There are recent concerns on how the indexing increases the volatility of the future stock market. Read more on the attached article. Best regards