Comment by scottyah

Commodity futures made sense to me at FedEx- they would pay money with a supplier for the option to buy gas/oil at X price at Y date in the future. It costs more than just agreeing to pay for it at that price in the future, but if deliveries went way down (or prices) it'd be less costly to "back out".

I wonder if there's a fab time secondary market where Wall Street types are making millions off speculating fab time.