Most ordinary investors focus on stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds in building their investment portfolios. However, there are other financial markets that play a key role in the overall economy, and although many investors never participate in them, futures markets are among the most important. Let's look at what futures are and why you need to pay attention to them. What futures contracts are. The futures market has its origins in the commodities industry. Farmers, oil and gas producers, miners, and others whose business it is to produce commodities wanted a way to manage the risk of having to accept an uncertain price for their future production.
What is The Counted? The Counted is a project by the Guardian â and you â working to count the number of people killed by police and other law enforcement agencies in the United States throughout 2015, to monitor their demographics and to tell the stories of how they died.
Two other groups that you can sort nouns into are countable and uncountable: 1  If it can have a number in front of it, it is a countable noun, like cat, mile, jar, house, sack, cup, or moon. 2  Uncountable nouns are sometimes referred to as mass nouns, because they have mass but you canât count them.