1.   Suppose that an individual can undertake one of the following two investments, one in the cash market and one in the futures market.

2.   It will probably turn on the relative importance of being close to the cash market as against the synergistic presence of other contracts on the same exchange.

3.   No long interest rate future or option contract exists at present due to the lack of liquidity in the underlying cash bond market.

4.   As its name suggests, the SFA regulates both the cash market and derivatives.

5.   As the marketing year draws to a close, many processors have been holding off bids, bringing prices down for soybeans in the cash market.

6.   Beans also were pressured by a lack of new business and quiet cash markets.

7.   But inactive cash markets Thursday failed to provide fundamental support.

8.   But the market fell back near the close of the New York cash market.

9.   By operating in the synthetic market, rather than the cash market, the investor does not have to fund the investment.

10.   Cash markets generally are sluggish.