The price of goods for immediate delivery. This is contrasted with forward or futures prices, which are for goods to be delivered at named future dates. Spot transactions are normally settled by actual delivery, whereas most forward and futures deals are paper transactions only.

• wage rate
• wage resistance
• wage restraint
• wage rigidity
• wage round
• wages
• Wages Council
• Wall Street
• Walras's Law
• war
• warming, global
• warrant
• warranted growth rate
• warranty
• wastage, natural
• waste, hazardous
• wasting asset
• Ways and Means Advances
• weakening of a currency
• wealth
• wealth effect
• wealth, store of
• wealth tax
• wear and tear
• wedge, tax