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| Domain | Definition |
Agriculture | A public or open marketplace (such as open exchanges or auction houses) where products (including agricultural products such as livestock, grain, cotton, etc.) are bought and sold. The Minneapolis Grain Exchange and the now defunct National Cheese Exchange are examples. Spot also refers to a maturing delivery month of a futures contract. (references) |
Economics | The market for a commodity or foreign exchange available for immediate delivery. (references) |
Finance | See cash market. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SPOT MARKET |
| Specialty definitions using "SPOT MARKET": cash market ♦ Limited global quota for upland cotton ♦ POOLCO. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Electricity is sold via a spot market. (references) | |
To accommodate, foreign suppliers should also consider Hong Kong as a spot market and introduce less expensive product lines, while being careful not to hurt their market position or corporate image. (references) | ||
Economic History | Kazakhstan | In 2001, the Government established a spot market for wholesale power trading. (references) |
Tunisia | TUNISIA HAS PERMITTED RESTRICTED SPOT MARKET TRADING OF FOREIGN CURRENCY SINCE 1995. (references) | |
Norway | Norwegian importers do not wish to make long term contracts, and are covering their needs in the EU spot market. (references) | |
Political Economy | TUNISIA | However, in the face of a weakening euro, the Central Bank did allow the dinar to depreciate slightly in real terms in 2000 and 2001. Since 1995, Tunisia permits restricted spot market trading of foreign currency. (references) |
PHILIPPINES | Recent measures in response to speculative currency pressures and excessive foreign exchange volatility included monetary tightening (i.e., adjustments in reserve requirements and a generally cautious domestic interest-rate stance despite successive U.S. rate cuts); a lower over-the-counter ceiling for foreign exchange sales without documentation; expanded coverage of the BSP's Currency Risk Protection Facility (a nondeliverable forward hedging facility first introduced in December 1997 to reduce pressures in the spot market); and occasional liquidity infusions in the interbank foreign exchange market. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
spot market | 16 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SPOT MARKET"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | készárupiac. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | otspay arketmay mercado al contado. (various references) spotmarknad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-k-m-o-p-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: postmark, prostate. | |
-3 letters: esparto, maestro, markets, matters, ostmark, patters, potters, presoak, proteas, protest, restamp, rotates, seaport, smatter, spatter, spotter, stamper, stomate, stomper, tampers, tapster, teapots, toaster, topmast, trompes. | |
-4 letters: aptest, arkose, armets, korats, makers, market, masker, master, maters, matres, matter, mattes, metros, mopers, motets, mottes, oaters, operas, orates, ottars, otters, pareos, paster, pastor. | |
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| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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