Warsaw and Bilski began working on a hedging system in the early 1990s designed to shelter both consumers and utilities against big swings in energy prices and demand.
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Previous quarterly write downs were offset by gains on hedging, but that hedge has reversed course in this quarter, the company said last month.
Myanmar is hedging its bets on who will come out on top in the new Great Game.
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.
Larry Pope addressed increasing investor frustration over the company's hedging operations, saying that Smithfield Foods plans on reigning them in.
Sterling Smith, commodity trading adviser and market analyst at Country Hedging, said one weight on gold Wednesday was the retreat in the U.S. consumer price index, an inflation gauge.
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The carrier has gained tremendous respect and popularity for its low-cost business model and thrives on maintaining low operating expenses, in part due to its fuel hedging programs.
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Traders have been trying to stand firm on longs, even in the face of some troubling headlines, but hedging was certainly a necessary ingredient to the trade.
Additional hedging activity can be seen in the rise in preference for calls on the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX).
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First, I am not surprised that the size of the loss has turned out to be 15% greater than UBS first estimated - because selling or hedging big trading positions in a hurry, as UBS had to do on Friday, is always expensive.
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On Thursday, we posted a strategy for hedging bets on BIDU into earnings, and that gave us a chance to stay involved in the stock for higher prices while locking in gains from the recent run higher.
In other words, it would appear that options traders are hedging long call positions on stocks by purchasing puts on indexes.
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The index closed at 4870 on Thursday, but options investors are hedging the market will go lower early Friday following a general decline in Asian Pacific equities already.
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