Monday, May 24, 2010

Convenience Yield

The benefit or premium associated with physically holding an underlying product or particular good, rather than the (futures) contract or derivative product for that good.


The futures price formula:
F0=S0*(1+r)T+FV(CB,0,T)

where
FV(CB,0,T): the future value of the costs of storage minus the convenience yield

Thus convenience yield decreases the futures price.

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