currency hedge
hedge
verb[ I or T ]
uk /hedʒ/us
FINANCE, STOCK MARKET
to reduce the risk of losing money on shares, bonds, etc. that you own, for example by buying futures (= agreements to sell shares for a particular price at a date in the future) or options (= the rights to buy or sell shares for a particular price within a particular time period):
European airports have been attracting investors keen to hedge long-term pension liabilities.
We don't tend to hedge at all - in either stock or bond funds.
hedge against sthCompanies can hedge against currency movements, but many choose not to.
hedge risk/exposureAirbus has hedged enough of its dollar exposure that a major short-term impact is unlikely.
 hedge your bets
to reduce the risk of failure or of losing money by making sure that you can choose between different possibilities:
Some business leaders hedged their bets by donating money to both parties.
Futures contracts allow companies in the nuclear sector to hedge their bets against price rises this year, next year or 10 years from now.

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The limited available evidence suggests that, while there is a positive correlation between inflation and salaries, neither is well hedged by equities.
The narrowing margins in these products in turn reduced the cost of hedging barrier options.
Table 3 shows the data for hedges that resulted in statistical significance.
Most notably, younger female speakers use hedges often.
Furthermore, our prototype implementation of an equivalence-checker for hedged bisimilarity also profits from the minimality requirements of hedged bisimilarity.
In the present corpus of spoken discourse, we find only 14% of ke9ilu tokens functioning as hedges.
Product analysis revealed inaccurate use of mechanics and g rammar and, globally, a lack of clear thesis statements, support of claims, transitions, and hedged statements.
The trial design consisted of a control plot without hedges and an adjacent plot with hedges on each farm.
Established hedgerows that are refuges for ancient woodland species may have been grubbed up and replaced by fences or species-poor prunus spinosa (blackthorn) hedges.
Roads and pavements are more likely to accumulate debris washed off fields and hedges, so that there are more hazards for the older pedestrian.
In this paper we consider the problem of hedging options in the presence of cost in trading the underlying asset.
Do they have the required information and are they able to plant and maintain the hedges, and to cope with any problems that arise?
The study aimed to assess the degree of competition between the hedges and the adjacent maize rows.
Thus, there was little evidence for any net eect of the hedges on maize yield when the plots were managed by researchers.
Farmers were able to establish and prune the hedges; however, both activities considerably increased labour use during the busiest period of the year.
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