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contangonoun
Fee paid by a buyer to the seller on settlement day when the buyer wishes to defer settlement until the next settlement day.
2005: most of these other commodities are generally in contango uE000195441uE001 Futures Industry Magazine
contangonoun
The situation in a futures market where prices for future delivery are higher than prices for immediate (or nearer) delivery.
2005: most of these other commodities are generally in contango uE000195441uE001 Futures Industry Magazine
contangonoun
The amount by which prices for future delivery are higher than prices for near delivery.
2003: Normally new buyers would go after the March silver contract, especially with such a small contango. uE000195442uE001 Bill Murphy, Kitco Bullion Dealers
Webster Dictionary
Contangonoun
the premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day
Contangonoun
the postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. See Backwardation
Etymology: [Prob. a corruption of contingent.]
Wikidata
Contango
Contango is the market condition wherein the price of a forward or futures contract is trading above the expected spot price at contract maturity. The futures or forward curve would typically be upward sloping, since contracts for further dates would typically trade at even higher prices. A contango is normal for a non-perishable commodity that has a cost of carry. Such costs include warehousing fees and interest forgone on money tied up, less income from leasing out the commodity if possible. For perishable commodities, price differences between near and far delivery are not a contango. Different delivery dates are in effect entirely different commodities in this case, since fresh eggs today will not still be fresh in 6 months' time, 90-day treasury bills will have matured, etc. The opposite market condition to contango is known as backwardation.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Contango
kon-tang′go, n. a percentage paid by the buyer to the seller of stock for keeping back its delivery to the next settling-day, continuation—opp. to Backwardation. [From Continue.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of contango in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of contango in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of contango in a Sentence
The big surprise was in the product markets where there were builds in both gasoline and heating oil, while we are witnessing a momentum trade in spot crude helped by the weakness in the dollar, the forward curve remains in contango with the build in the product markets.
Given the contango, those who hedged the calendar year have done better. Producers are doing more calendar hedging and right now as hedging the front doesn't make any sense because of the shape of the curve, if you're confident that current prices and the shape of the curve are here to stay, then it makes sense to hedge at these levels.
With the fundamental outlook for oil not improving significantly, outflows are likely short-term investors taking money off the table after a nice recovery in oil prices since late March, oil ETPs are not ideal for longer-term bets due to roll costs eroding returns and the market has been in contango ever since the ETP flows began to pick up late last year.
The emergence of contango price structures created significant opportunities, we responded by aggressively expanding our access to storage capacity around the world and using our logistical assets to maximum advantage in support of our trading activity.
I suspect there is some potential for that contango to steepen. Particularly as companies are curbing their spendingthat looks to me like a very cheap back end of the curve.
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