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

so we're hedging our bets here.

Investors, of course, are hedging their bets.

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

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.

Commodity prices fell, too.

Latin America s Commodity Windfall

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.

Again, a commodity for consumption.

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

International commodity markets are under stress.

United Nations commodity and other conferences.

How can measures to increase commodity price stability and returns from commodity exports contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goals?

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

33. We emphasize the need to address the impact of weak and volatile commodity prices and support the efforts of commodity dependent countries to restructure, diversify and strengthen the competitiveness of their commodity sectors.

Growth driven by high commodity prices is also susceptible to busts, for similar reasons. Commodity prices tend to move in cycles.

Fourth, the commodity super cycle that helped Brazil, Russia, South Africa, and many other commodity exporting emerging markets may be over.

But mounting environmental challenges, and the limited availability of commodity substitutes, suggest that a reprieve on commodity prices is not near.

The Global Implications of Falling Commodity Prices

After all, energy is a global commodity.

The Silver Lining in High Commodity Prices

Informal briefing on reproductive health commodity security

Informal briefing on reproductive health commodity security

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.

SEOUL The commodity super cycle in which commodity prices reach ever higher highs, and fall only to higher lows is not over.

2. Expresses the urgent need for supportive international policies and measures to improve the functioning of commodity markets through efficient and transparent price formation mechanisms, including commodity exchanges, and through the use of commodity price risk management instruments

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.

Recognizing that commodity prices are an important element for heavily indebted poor countries that are commodity dependent in maintaining long term debt sustainability,

(v) systematically link debt repayment and debt servicing by commodity dependent developing countries to adverse movements in prices of commodity exports and imports

That is, our housing has become a commodity.

Emerging market demand has pushed up commodity prices.

Commodity futures are formal agreements to buy or sell a specified amount of a commodity at a specified future date for a specified price.

3. Recognizes that developed countries account for two thirds of non fuel commodity imports, and expresses the urgent need for supportive international policies and measures to improve the functioning of the commodity markets through efficient and transparent mechanisms, including commodity exchanges

2. Expresses the urgent need for supportive international policies and measures to improve the functioning of commodity markets through efficient and transparent price formation mechanisms, including commodity exchanges, and through the use of viable and effective commodity price risk management instruments

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.

Commodity futures are generally traded before their expiration date.

But attention is neither a currency nor a commodity.