Normal backwardation
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Normal backwardation
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Normal backwardation, also sometimes called backwardation, is the market condition where the price of a commodity's forward or futures contract is trading below the expected spot price at contract maturity. The resulting futures or forward curve would typically be downward sloping, since contracts for further dates would typically trade at even lower prices. In practice, the expected future spot price is unknown, and the term "backwardation" may refer to "positive basis", which occurs when the c
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Situation when futures prices are below the expected spot price at maturity
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2023-06-09T01:20:52Z
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