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hedge

[hej] / hɛdʒ /






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Streets for All’s political action committee took out ads to elect Raman and defeat Bass, powered largely by contributions from hedge fund manager and bike lane advocate Aaron Sosnick.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Wendy’s board rejected an offer from Nelson Peltz’s hedge fund Trian Fund Management to buy the fast-food chain for around $1.4 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

“We therefore assume macro-policy hedge demand for gold – reflected in call-option demand – normalizes toward its historical average rather than returning to the elevated levels seen earlier this year,” they wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

Or it could signal a new degree of liquidity stress in the market as investors sell to take profits and raise cash to hedge against what they see as new political and economic risks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Because Bear Stearns was big and important, and Cornwall Capital was a garage band hedge fund, Bear Stearns hadn’t been required to post collateral to Cornwall.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

"Those hedges will soon roll off, meaning the airline industry faces significant cost pain."

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

Since the building sits next to hedges on two sides, she didn’t cover the whole thing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

In the last two tree-planting seasons, the Lancashire Woodland Partnership has planted almost 500,000 trees and more than 27,233 metres of new hedges.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

This dollar weakness would also cheapen foreign-exchange hedging costs, they believed, allowing foreign investors concerned about the U.S. dollar’s long-run status to bolster their foreign-exchange hedges, which in turn would amplify the buck’s weakness.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Chaol coughed, suddenly very interested in the berries in the hedges.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

While 80% of Ryanair’s jet-fuel needs for fiscal 2027 are hedged at $65 a barrel, its fiscal 2028 hedge cover stands at 25%, hedged at $95 a barrel, it added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Treasury yields were also comparable to or lower than other sovereign bonds when hedged into dollars, but have been generally higher since the pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

In this way, you will be largely hedged against changes in interest rates across the credit spectrum.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

Astoria launched a hedged growth fund for separately managed accounts in late 2020 that offers strategies similar to buffered ETFs.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

Eisman stuck to his sell rating on Lomas Financial, even after the Lomas Financial Corporation announced that investors needn’t worry about its financial condition, as it had hedged its market risk.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

“I was planning on hedging and saying, ‘It looks like we’re winning,’ but I think we won!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Dan Coatsworth, head of markets at AJ Bell, said "many airlines have navigated this year's oil price spike thanks to forward hedging, having locked in large swathes of fuel costs before the Iran war".

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

If compute prices sank because of decreased demand or increased supply, the trades would pay out, hedging an option buyer against losses in other parts of its business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

This doesn’t mean that everyone on Kalshi is a financially-minded trader hedging risk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The second subsection reviews three issues: the problem of focusing on a description of professional activity rather than an exposition of subject matter, the overuse of apologetic language, and the disadvantages of excessive hedging.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker


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