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Example sentences for: hedging

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The commission seems to be giving some credence to the claimed benefits of the merger, while hedging its bets on the competition issue by shoring up Office Max and seeding healthy retail conflict in scores of communities.
Equity options, just like commodity and currency futures, can and often do serve a hedging function.
The stories follow the Fed's lead, hedging their bets as to whether this will be the last hike of the year.
In fact, if I understand the rules, a $17 billion foundation will have to give away roughly $170 million per quarter and, in today's market and economy, ought to have considerably more than that to spend, even after hedging against inflation.
Thanks to computers, however, investment banks now offer a vast array of financial instruments, and hedging has become much easier.