Cash Commodity

What Does Cash Commodity Mean?
The actual or physical commodity underlying a futures contract.

Investopedia explains Cash Commodity
For example, the cash commodity of a December orange juice futures contract is orange juice. Interchangeable with "actual" and "spot commodity."

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