Hedging--or protecting--your property or privacy is a natural instinct.
Trading VIX-related indexes may make sense for hedging near-term market fluctuations, but there is simply not going to be any way to predict market moves with any certainty.
When you put those together--because they're hedging each other--it's actually risk-reducing.
In this scenario, fixed income assets tend to suffer while inflation-hedging assets benefit from the currency devaluation.
So hedging your fixed-income investments in the fixed-income portion of your portfolio is going to be very critical.
Without gains from fuel-hedging contracts, Southwest would have earned 7 cents per share, topping analysts' forecast of 2 cents per share.
The result was a bubble in inflation-hedging hard assets (housing above all), followed by a bust that precipitated a financial crisis.
Hedge funds may or may not engage in hedging or short- selling.
To be sure, such accolades are generally accompanied by bet-hedging caveats.
This bet-hedging tactic may or may not work with the court.
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While Hayes was dreaming about a bull market, the hedge fund operators were doing just what they are paid to do -- hedging away their risk.
There was also little damage from the supply side as a dip in scrap and the swing to net de-hedging outweighed a modest rise in mine production.
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The winning submission from MFX Solutions focused on eliminating currency risk for international SME lenders by adopting a proven currency-hedging strategy pioneered in the microfinance industry.
Data from Hedge Fund Research, a consultancy, show that in the second quarter, a share-hedging strategy involving both long and short sales was the most popular in America and Britain.
Stack does agree that "the dollar is in trouble" and that it would make sense to hedge your portfolio against further declines by allocating 5% to 12% to gold and other "dollar-hedging" assets.
Capiapo, Chile (CNN) -- Hedging their bets, officials in Chile said on Sunday they will set up an oil drill as a third option to rescue the 33 miners trapped underground since August 5.
Stuart Davis, chief executive of HSBC's Indian arm, says there has been a surge in big firms borrowing abroad in dollars, which can be cheaper than doing so at home even once currency-hedging costs are included.
They all limit price swings by hedging bets on stocks--often at a hefty price.
Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com and others are already building similar platforms Microsoft is just a Johnny-come-lately hedging its bets.
For instance, Barclays recommends savvy derivatives trades like swaps and short-term hedging strategies that focus on spreads between bond maturities.
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Speculators plug the gap when the hedging requirements of raw-material producers and buyers do not coincide, offering a counterparty for trades that might otherwise have no takers.
In practice, some of these swaps or interest-rate hedging products increased the borrowing costs of struggling companies or prevented them from taking advantage of the sharp fall in interest rates since 2008.
Robert Gordon, whose firm Twenty-First Securites specializes in tax-wise hedging strategies, says that a call strike price that is 15% to 20% above the put strike price should do the trick.
In a May 25 Senate briefing, OCC Chief Counsel Julie Williams said banks regularly engage in risk-mitigating hedging activities as part of their regular business, according to several people who attended the meeting.
It will continue its courtroom-based trench warfare against Apple to defend its Android phones while hedging its bets with new Windows-based ones.
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This hedging comes from Exelon pre-selling megawatt hours when the forward prices in the market were higher, Fremont explains.
More than 80, 000 women worked the land, driving tractors, threshing, ploughing, tree-felling, hedging and ditching as part of the Women's Land Army.
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