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Potato futures soar 700% in less than a month on Iran war speculation (www.euronews.com)

submitted 3 days ago by yogthos@lemmygrad.ml to c/europe@hexbear.net

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[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago

Basically a cash settled futures contract

Idk why it's considerably more fucked up but I'm guessing maybe because there's no physical delivery it serves even less of a purpose for people hedging their physical goods and just blatant financial speculation on prices of goods?

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