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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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A declining swap rate would be a sign of shifting liquidity flows and indicative of tightening conditions as hedging costs grow more expensive.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

A one-off hit tied to hedging and funding for the Commerzbank offer weighed on UniCredit’s net profit for the second quarter, which fell 13% on year to 2.91 billion euros.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

If expectations of a stronger yen cause Japanese investors to increase their dollar hedges, the basis could move further into negative territory, signaling greater hedging demand and tighter dollar-funding conditions.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

Even after accounting for its hedging, Diamondback said gas sales remained negative 34 cents, on average.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Each man was hedging his bets on the hereafter by preparing his private papers for posterity, the one place where they knew their prospects of immortality were assured.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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