0 a period of time that is to come: --
In future I'm going to check every single piece of work that you do!
In future I won't bother asking him out anywhere if he's just going to complain that he's bored!
Could you be more careful in future?
With falling audiences, the future of this theatre is in doubt.
She's a very talented young singer, Mike, and I personally think she's got a great future ahead of her!
Torn apart by war, its economy virtually destroyed, this country now faces a very uncertain future.
In the sentence "He will study" the verb phrase "will study" is in the future.
I can see those two getting married in the not too distant future (= quite soon).
Do you plan to leave New York in the distant future or the near future?
We need to plan for the future.
I wonder what the future holds for (= what will happen to) you and me.
Sometimes I worry about the future.
1 agreements for the buying and selling of goods, in which the price is agreed before a particular future time at which the goods will be provided: --
2 happening or existing in the future: --
For future reference, could you use the headed paper for any correspondence that leaves this office?
How do you say that in the future tense?
There's an old superstition that young girls going to bed on this night dream of their future husbands.
Of course we'll keep you up to date about any future developments.
3 time which is to come, or something that will happen or exist later: --
4 the conditions for success: --
[ C usually sing ] Candidates always promise a brighter future for Americans.
[ U ] In 1903, Ford realized that the future of automobiles lay in making them faster and cheaper.
5 having the tense of the verb used to describe actions, events, or states that will happen or exist later: --
There have been only three studies of the distribution of returns for index futures.
Thus, share prices reflect less information than before the introduction of index futures.
The desired margin size is a positive function of the volatility of futures prices.
If daily data is available, maturity is the number of calendar days remaining until delivery of the futures contract takes place.
Initially, the spot market led futures but, by the end of the data period, the futures market led the spot.
Spot and futures returns were computed as the natural logarithm of the daily price relatives.
He had no views about the direction of movement of spot or futures prices.
There are three important papers in the application of the mixture-of-distributions hypothesis to futures prices, and these will be considered in turn.
