In 2000, a bumper harvest crashed prices and, with profits squeezed, farmers looked for a solution.

2000年，一场大丰收导致农作物的价格暴跌、利润减少，农民们开始寻找解决办法。

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Yet a pairs trader with equal short exposure to Chevron would offset some or all of those losses with profits as Chevron tumbled, too.

而由于雪佛龙的股价也将大跌，以等额做空雪佛龙的配对交易者所获的利润将抵消他的部分或所有损失。

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A trader who jumped into the business three years ago, Mr. Chen survives by offsetting his losses with profits from a restaurant his family owns in Alabama.

作为一个三年前投身茶行的商人，Chen先生以他家在阿拉巴马州的饭馆的利润抵消了茶叶生意上的损失。

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The with-profits policy, a mainstay of the life-insurance industry, is especially opaque, says the review.

ECONOMIST: Saving

Now that sales of with-profits policies have dwindled, however, regulators are pushing insurance companies to unload their excess capital.

ECONOMIST: With-profits funds

FSA's boss, hinted that new regulatory rules on with-profits distributions would make it impossible to repeat the Axa carve-up.

ECONOMIST: With-profits funds