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• present participle of hedge.

hedging

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1. The practice by which a business or investor limits risk by taking positions that tend to offset each other. For example, a business stands to lose money if the price of a commodity it holds declines, but it can offset this risk by agreeing to sell a specified amount of the commodity at a set price at some point in the future.

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Hedge funds, which are investment funds usually open only to the very wealthy, grew in the 1990s. The near failure of one such fund in 1998, Long-Term Capital Management, sent shock waves through Wall Street.

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You could feel me hedging more than a little there, right?

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026

While elevated jet-fuel prices could weigh more on Chinese airlines due to limited fuel hedging, the share selloff has largely priced in much of the near-term pessimism, with valuations appearing more reasonable, he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

The strategy complements another hedging recommendation on SPY we made in May for June expiration with lower strikes.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

After Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour posted on X about the promotion, social-media users responded by pointing out that a small business hedging potential losses tied to a promotion wasn’t exactly a new concept.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

The second subsection reviews three issues: the problem of focusing on a description of professional activity rather than an exposition of subject matter, the overuse of apologetic language, and the disadvantages of excessive hedging.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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