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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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The plaque honoring “la Nueve” speaks to how memory is often overlaid by the hedging of history.
Who Liberated Paris in August 1944?||August 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Netanyahu has been eager to take credit for Iran's hedging of its stockpiles.
What Obama Said About Iran|Ali Gharib|March 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Karl Rove says Romney has the edge in the overall vote on Election Day and in his hedging way seemed to predict a Romney triumph.
Mitt Romney’s Delusions of Victory|Matt Latimer|November 3, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The entire phylum of what they do is called “hedging risk,” not diving into it.
Jack Hitt Examines Why Amateurs Are the Job Creators|Jack Hitt|June 9, 2012|DAILY BEAST

The death of an uncle and a hedging competition are processed and recounted in due course.
The Duchess Tells All|Chloë Schama|November 25, 2010|DAILY BEAST
What argument does Burke use to prove that hedging in the population is not practicable?
English: Composition and Literature|W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
I might have hedged on my own stock, but I don't believe in hedging.
The Three Partners|Bret Harte
What does a poor man do, who goes out hedging and ditching with a dead child lying in his house?
The Prime Minister|Anthony Trollope
With the infinite number and variety of chimneys hedging me in, I naturally expected to find the sky alive with swallows.
Roof and Meadow|Dallas Lore Sharp
It was very hard to keep up with the exactions of her family who were continually hedging her about with some new condition.
The Four Corners Abroad|Amy Ella Blanchard

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