1 NASA is hedging its bets and adopting both strategies.

2 Just answer 'yes' or 'no'-and stop hedging.

3 Stop hedging and answer my question directly!

4 Stop hedging and tell me what you really think.

5 They're hedging their bets and keeping up contacts with both companies.

6 You're hedging again - have you got the money or haven't you?

7 Dealers on the foreign exchange markets were also hedging their bets and the pound was also on ice.

8 Maybe, I tell myself, I was really hedging my bets.

9 Not surprisingly, Whitehall has been hedging its bets with officials preparing briefs to cover a variety of eventualities.

10 This is no time for waffling, hedging, or invoking executive privilege.

11 It allows you to diversify real-estate holdings, hedging your risk should prices in one market drop.

12 It makes money from spreads on its hedging operations which fix the interest rate, and on attracting new clients.

13 But what I feel instead is acceptance hedging on satisfaction and a faint promise for the day just beginning.

14 Such bet - hedging is sensible.

15 Traditional hedging analysis adopts variance as the risk measure.

16 Hedging in futures markets in synonymous with shifting risk.

17 Hedging in futures markets is synonymous with shifting risk.

18 We can minimize the exchange rate risk by hedging.

19 You will not make large gains by hedging yourself.

20 This is called hedging slippage.

21 Such hedging, coupled with Europe's dithering over Turkey, shows a new Europe in conflict with itself.

22 There are ways of hedging against the exchange rate risk.

23 This is an appropriate place, perhaps, for a few words about the use of roses for hedging and screening.

24 But Jenny, determined to be a true and loyal supporter, was hedging Maria's bets.

25 The last sentence may seem obscure or - in the light of recent outcry against paedophilia - a hedging of bets.

26 Woody herbs, like thyme, marjoram and winter savory stay green in all but the hardest winters and clip into tiny hedging.

27 However, that has not stopped the cable companies from hedging their bets by getting into the satellite business, too.

28 The bottom line: the Supreme Court, in an opinion written largely by Justice Anthony Kennedy, invalidated the patent at issue — one on a method for hedging weather-based risk in commodities trading.

29 Container freight derivatives broker with ACM-GFI Cherry Wang said there was a lot of open interest in the SSEFC which reflected broad interest in using the market as a hedging tool.

30 Risk-reversals, a measure of the premium required to hold a call or a put in a currency pair, have increasingly shown investors hedging against a rise in the Canadian dollar in recent months.

31 Ebitda was hit by EUR9 million in charges related to a fuel hedging, a spokeswoman said.

32 Detractors also argue central clearing will raise hedging costs for companies.

33 Things we used to say were verboten are now considered an acceptable risk-return trade-off as liquidity and hedging markets have developed.

34 Stock index future is a new financial derivative instrument. It has two functions: hedging and price discovering.

35 In finding the method for risk - hedging invalid, court relied on existing Supreme Court case law.

36 If this institution bought a put option on a debt security, it would be clearly hedging.

37 However, more and more domestic companies make a loss though hedging because of less in knowledge of hedge risk and the limitation in hedge risk valuation and management.

38 John hedged his bets for the purpose of hedging against loss.

39 The basic idea is changing the spot market into the risk of basis risk. It is also theory gist of hedging operation.

40 'In commercial terms, I'm living in the current economy, but I have a hedging strategy for it all going wrong, ' he says by telephone from his study, a transformed woodshed.

41 Investors bought gold a hedging tool for preserving monetary value.

42 Hedging can offset the risk of price fluctuation in cash markets in a great part but cannot erase the risk completely because there exists basis.

43 Stock index futures have two functions, including hedging and discovering price.

44 According to empirical analysis, it's found that the hedging rates estimated by different models have subtle differences in absolute volume, but it's improved significantly in relative volume.

45 Hedging allows producers to lock-in guaranteed prices for future output, but it can backfire if the price of spot metal rises above the hedged price.

46 An important consideration in making hedging decisions is the expected activity of competitors.

47 It is hedging its bets in the all - important diplomatic poker game.

48 This paper discusses the hedging function of short selling system in security market by empirical study.

49 And we also find that the performances of three ETFs are not all the same on different hedging models and horizons, which also provide a reference for different ETFs investor on hedging operation.

50 Thus, in the lack of related deliveries hedging against risk, the dynamic risk management can still control risk and generate value for security investment foundation.

51 Oil - producing countries and oil companies dislike hedging against rising prices.

52 By hedging strategy, the risk caused by stock normal volatility will be hedged, then a European option pricing equation and formulae whose underlying stock pricing process is mixed process are gotten.

53 A particular futures contract can have different values with respect to hedging effectiveness, depending on which measure is used and on the hedger utility function.

54 High - intensity - type chimeric hedging may be gas - tight syringe safety connections, never loose.

55 When the longest holding period of futures contracts is shorter than the hedging period, the hedger has to use two or more futures contracts overlap to hedging for the spot.

56 Strictly speaking, this transaction in the accounting is not recognized as hedging transactions.

57 Whether establishing a short or a long hedge, the main objective of hedging is to offset the price risk associated with buying, selling, or holding grain.

58 Take advantage of spread that can make risk-free arbitrage and cross-commodity arbitrage in order to optimize the hedging effect.

59 Traders can trade away the underlying interest rate risks by hedging in the interest rate futures market.

60 According to the principle of finance engineering, we can design a zero - coupon bond to any given stock. We use the stock and the mentioned zero ?coupon bond to construct a hedging portfolio.

61 It made chief financial officers more receptive to the ideas of hedging.

62 South African shrub having forked spines and plumlike fruit; frequently used as hedging.

63 Finally, this paper studies the theoretical price and hedging strategy of the insured mutual fund redemption value program and variable annuity incorporating guaranteed minimum accumulation benefit.

64 M 0905 recommended the establishment of an appropriate hedging position, and can try to speculative single space.

65 If the hedging instrument is a derivative instrument, the gain or loss from the changes in the fair value of the hedging instrument shall be recorded in the profits and losses of the current period.

66 In this paper, we analysis the defects of least variance method, and advance a least second moment method of the futures hedging.

67 Hedging does not necessarily remove all of a company's financial risk.http:///hedging.html

68 Considering a control problem of failure prone production systems with demand uncertainty, an optimal trinal hedging point control policy was proposed.

69 A rise in short interest for some stocks lately suggests that traders may be piling in to make bearish bets, or they could be hedging other positions.

70 The Theory of Modigliani-Miller ( MM ) tells us that hedging is not necessary for firms in a perfect market.

71 Forecasters are hedging their bets about the outcome of this Saturday's Louisiana governor's race.

72 One of the reasons for not so much price wave is that the large buyers of corn have learnt to make hedging transaction to avoid their probable lost.

73 This provides the sugar in batches admission, the inverted pyramid Jiancang hedging opportunities.

74 Even if the dollar doesn't gain much from here, some bond analysts recommend hedging foreign bond portfolios against currency gyrations.

75 Identification of power market operation state is of importance to hedging market risk. Based on Dr.

76 The hedging ratio and performance of China's soybean futures market is superior to these of hard wheat futures market.

77 It is a useful way to manage market system risk by future hedging the finance capital.

78 More sophisticated investors will also use a hedging strategy in combination with their speculative investment in order to limit potential losses.

79 Hedging can benefit anyone including grain elevator operators, merchandisers, producers, exporters, or process any of the agricultural commodities traded on futures exchanges.

80 XTO, for example, reported it had received an average price of $7.08 per million Btu in the second quarter because of its hedging.