hedge definition

hedge

Investment made by taking a trading position in a futures or options market to minimize the impact of adverse changes in interest rates or in the prices of commodities or securities. See also hedging.

hedge is in the Commodities & Precious Metals Trading, Currency Trading, Disaster Planning & Risk Management, Investing and Securities & Futures Trading subjects.

hedge appears in the definitions of the following terms: variable annuity, foreign exchange contract, laddered portfolio, credit derivative (CD), double hedging, hedge accounting, stock index futures, forward freight agreement, foreign exchange option, long hedge and

hedge appears in these other terms: buying hedge, hedge clause, perfect hedge, macro hedge, buy hedge, short hedge, convertible hedge, purchasing hedge, hedge ratio, micro hedge and

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