so we're hedging our bets here.

Investors, of course, are hedging their bets.

Right, so anyway ... so we're hedging our bets here.

Capitalist institutions include risk management schemes that provide insurance, hedging, and diversification.

They thus provide an important instrument for hedging price risks in commodity markets.

Nevertheless, the West appears to be hedging its bets by sustaining contacts with the opposition.

But, while such hedging is natural in world politics, modesty is important for both sides.

These investors can, in turn, be encouraged when financial hedging devices and financial diversification protect them.

But it would be a mistake to focus only on the hedging part of American strategy.

Whereas guarding against uncertainty had traditionally been a moral issue, hedging against risk is a purely technical question.

In part, this reflects political hedging by the MILF in the face of Manila s incapacity to make meaningful concessions.

Back in the early 1980 s, financial engineers invented portfolio insurance, a fancy active hedging strategy for controlling downside risk.

But currency values are driven by macroeconomic developments, and therefore FX does offer natural hedging opportunities in liquid and transparent markets.

Unfortunately, when global stock markets crashed in October 1987, the insurance turned out to be useless, mainly because markets for hedging collapsed.

At the same time, oil hedging not only raises oil prices but results in huge reserves of cash in oil producing countries.

There has been a longstanding discussion about whether new derivative markets, which provide such financial hedging, tend to increase preexisting financial markets volatility.

Two waves of strikes in 1988 forced General Jaruzelski s government to negotiate with Solidarity, which, after a few months of hedging, was legalized.

For example, we need stronger consumer protection for retail financial products, stricter disclosure requirements for new securities, and better designed vehicles for hedging risks.

Ever since Copenhagen, a majority of the main greenhouse gas emitting countries have been setting out ambitious goals without hedging them with restrictive conditions.

But, for economists who actively engage the public, it is hard to influence hearts and minds by qualifying one s analysis and hedging one s prescriptions.

Other players on the grand chessboard of Asian geopolitics also are seeking to formulate new equations, as they concurrently pursue strategies of hedging, balancing, and bandwagoning.

The fund could also be used to transfer risk abroad, by taking advantage of the world hedging market which, for a fee, provides insurance against unexpected revenue fluctuations.

There has been a longstanding discussion about whether new derivative markets, which provide such financial hedging, tend to increase preexisting financial markets volatility. The consensus is that they do not.

Proposals to create an international fund to counteract price hikes in futures markets, for example, might divert speculators from trading and thus lower the market liquidity available for hedging purposes.

Investors, of course, are hedging their bets. Having ventured successfully into emerging non democratic countries whose frailty they are starting to fear, some, out of prudence, are starting to rediscover Europe.

Companies and investors are hedging their bets by taking a few resource efficiency measures and investing in some low carbon assets, but leaving their high carbon portfolios and activities largely intact.

It took a long time, but the contagion of a sound financial idea has been unmistakable. GDP linked bonds would also allow hedging the risk of inflation, plus respond to GDP growth.

In paragraph 66, the Board of Auditors recommended that UNFPA continue to closely monitor hedging transactions and obtain adequate information from UNDP in a timely manner, in order to ensure proper accounting of transactions.

In paragraph 66 of its report, the Board recommended that UNFPA continue to closely monitor hedging transactions and obtain adequate information from UNDP in a timely manner, in order to ensure proper accounting of transactions.

The sub prime crisis has exposed serious problems that we must address. For example, we need stronger consumer protection for retail financial products, stricter disclosure requirements for new securities, and better designed vehicles for hedging risks.

But, aside from strong public interest in investing in housing and in hedging housing risks, another critical issue must be resolved if futures markets are to succeed prices must be revealed, and investors must understand what these prices mean.

In the event of an increase in a commodity s price, a finance minister who has done a perfect job of hedging export price risk on the futures market will suddenly find himself accused of having gambled away the national patrimony.

For hedging to work efficiently and catastrophic eventualities to be avoided, there must be political will, a good monitoring system to prevent abuse, money available for premiums and sudden cash calls, and, most crucially, a good understanding of how instruments work.

25. Where organizations enter into forward exchange contracts or other financial instruments for hedging against currency fluctuations, they should disclose in their financial statements the value of outstanding contracts, together with the basis used for measuring and reporting the transactions.