Derivatives are basically financial contracts which are a way of allowing traders to hedge their bets.
There are some fully electronic trading firms looking to hedge their bets on the demise of the floor-trading system.
Still, she and ambitious expatriates such as Han Feng (see Comeback Kid) will want to hedge their bets.
So this Monday will see investors jockeying to hedge their bets: will Greece stay in the eurozone, or will it go?
It appears that most carmakers, including Mercedes-Benz, which is a leading backer of MirrorLink, plan to continue to hedge their bets.
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If advertisers are looking to hedge their bets, they could turn to private social networks and their more intimate, personalized platforms.
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They hedge their bets by making small investments in a variety of approaches, to see which work and which do not.
Some truckers soon will have the ability to hedge their bets.
Investors have to hedge their bets against all three outcomes, which explains the apparently contradictory combination of rising equity and commodity prices, along with low bond yields.
To hedge their bets many businessmen are now betting on other candidates, including Arseniy Yatseniuk, a 34-year-old who has already served as foreign minister, economics minister and central-bank governor.
Some car makers are trying to hedge their bets.
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The dual status of several leading publishers as both partner and adversary to Google underscores their desperate need to hedge their bets in a digital world that they have yet to master.
Bulls looking to hedge their bets in the event of a post-earnings pullback should considering coupling the bought 12-strike call with a sold April 15 call, resulting in the initiation of a bull call spread.
Banks have learned some hard lessons and are seeking to hedge their bets on construction loans that are viewed as higher risk, in part because half-built properties can be hard to sell if the projects stall.
In the Cajun match races, McNamara said owners who didn't use jockeys would hedge their bets by tying beer cans filled with rocks to the horses' manes to scare them into running harder or, in some cases, fastening on a live chicken.
While he tried to qualify this somewhat at the press conference with the caveat "when they are no longer needed, " he conveyed an impression of U.S. transience and determination to disengage from the Middle East that can only encourage its allies to hedge their bets by giving new weight to relations with Moscow.
Of course not, they hedge their financial bets with experienced human capital and guidance.
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Then there are non-commercial players, which includes index funds that have decided to trade oil, perhaps as a way to diversify and hedge against other bets in their portfolio, like bonds.
Ever-innovative financiers have given hedge funds new tools to double up their bets.
All this has been bad news for bears, especially those, such as hedge funds, that use leverage to increase their bets.
One possibility is that, with inflation and deflation both plausible consequences of a debt crisis, investors are spreading their bets, buying gold as a hedge against the former and bonds as a hedge against the latter.
Because hedge funds use a lot of borrowed money to magnify their bets, they are subject to rapid reversals: the history of the industry is littered with blowups.
The firms could facilitate customer orders as brokers have always done and continue to underwrite new issues of stocks and bonds, but they could not make bets with their own capital or own or invest in hedge funds.
As a result, hedge funds that promise high returns (especially after deducting their substantial fees) need to take outsized bets to deliver.
Most new investors start with funds of hedge funds: in exchange for an additional layer of fees, they delegate responsibility for due diligence and diversify their bets in an unfamiliar market.
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