derivative

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The 25% tariff would apply to the entire value of a finished product—known derivative products—containing steel and aluminum, the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the world's largest market for trading derivative financial products, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission both declined to comment.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

That may sound too derivative for some, but Sokolov, known for his outlandish Russian-language action-comedies “Why Don’t You Just Die!” and “No Looking Back,” brings a truly wacky sensibility to his first English-language feature.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

With prices of derivative products such as jet fuel and liquefied natural gas also affected, the economic fallout is already percolating down—even for energy exporters such as the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

These infinitesimals survived unchanged throughout Leibniz’s calculations; indeed the derivative of y with respect to x was not the infinitesimal-free ratio of fluxions y/x, but the ratio of infinitesimals dy/dx.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife