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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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Dan Coatsworth, head of markets at AJ Bell, said "many airlines have navigated this year's oil price spike thanks to forward hedging, having locked in large swathes of fuel costs before the Iran war".

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

“It’s totally plausible that the hedging behavior associated with this activity is one of the factors that is suppressing intraday moves,” said Garrett DeSimone, head of quantitative research at OptionMetrics, during a conversation with MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

In her talks with customers, she increasingly noticed companies’ frustrations with the volatility of computing costs and the lack of options for hedging them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Further ecological mitigation proposed included use of bat boxes, a lighting plan with "properly positioned and shielded lighting minimising light spill", standard trees and 20 smaller trees and hedging.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Two of the archers followed them, a wordless presence hedging them in.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

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