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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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Levine said many of BNY Wealth’s clients are now hedging their investment portfolios with energy exposure, including commodities.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

“I was planning on hedging and saying, ‘It looks like we’re winning,’ but I think we won!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

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

Danny Kirsch, head of options at Piper Sandler, said he’s noticed some clients hedging their bitcoin bets, buying put options in ETFs like the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

After all, Montaigne never gave an example of heavenly inspiration, of divine intervention, without hedging it about with doubts and difficulties.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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