Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• BANKRUPTCY FUTURES
  
  The futures contract based on the CME Quarterly Bankruptcy Index. The CME computes the index daily, based on personal and business bankruptcy filings, with personal bankruptcies getting 96% of the weight. (Aaron Luchetti, "Commodity Traders May Go for Broke With Novel Contract," WSJ, 4/3/98.)
  
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