Indeed, all this proposal really does is fix the price of a particular commodity quoted in a particular currency.

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Hedging allows companies to fix the price of a currency months in advance.

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The whole idea of a cap-and-trade scheme is that you fix quantity, not price.

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Instead the government is set to fix the future price of new nuclear electricity, to give investors the certainty of a future income stream.

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Buyers are suffering from gas-price sticker shock and are sitting on liquid assets until they get a better fix on where the economy is actually going.

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