Sentences with phrase «against price volatility»

For dairy producers and transformers as well as industrial consumers of dairy products, the use of derivatives provides significant benefits in mitigating against price volatility.

Oil - related revenue has dwindled since 2015 as a period of low prices reduced interest from producers and consumers in financial instruments that offer protection against price volatility, said Amrit Shahani, research director at Coalition.

Margin accounts are a big part of buying and selling futures contracts, which allow buyers and sellers to protect themselves against price volatility.

Not exact matches

«A lot of these guys are going to pull the rip cord and get out of the trade when the price goes against them with all this intraday volatility,» said S3 Partners» Head of Research Ihor Dusaniwsky.

But that volatility, as Ghosh likes to note, is the upside of the integrated nature of the company, which gives it a continued hedge against the differential in world oil prices through its downstream and midstream assets — on the midstream side, Husky operates a 2,000 - kilometre crude - oil pipeline system, and its downstream operations include upgrading and refining crude oil, and marketing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and ethanol in Canada and the United States.

The Strategic Growth Fund remains fully hedged, with the same «staggered strike» position we had at the 2007 peak, which strengthens our defense against potential market losses by raising the strike prices of our defensive put options, at a cost of just over 1 % of assets in additional put premium (which is relatively inexpensive with the CBOE volatility index currently at about 17).

Scrambling to hedge their positions against further losses, investors bid up the prices of options, leading to the surge in the VIX, a gauge that measures the implied volatility of near - term S&P 500 index options.

As we build our sector - leading asset bases and new factories — the nutritional powders, consumer cheeses and the beverages plant — when they all come online in the next two to three years, they will deliver the ultimate prize, which is an effective shield [against global price volatility].»

But there are several reasons to diversify crops, such as hedging farm revenue against the volatility of cocoa prices.

Green Alliance advocates Britain take a more activist stance on energy and food conservation, alongside greater spending on renewable energy production, to protect against further price shocks and the volatility that always seems to send prices up rather than down.

«Alternative fuels offer the potential, if not to lower the price [of petroleum - derived fuels], at least to provide a hedge in the future against their future growth or, put differently, their volatility,» says technologist Douglas Kirkpatrick, DARPA's program manager for alternative fuels efforts.

As with other hybrids, the fuel savings (GM forecasts 48 mpg) may not pencil out against the cost premium using today's values, but insulating yourself from future fuel price volatility is a value to some.

The remaining 20 % -30 % in cash equivalents continues to provide value as a buffer against downside volatility, as well as serve as a storage place until it is time to acquire assets at more attractive prices.

When you hold a particularly risky stock (one that can quickly swing high or low in price) or during times when the stock market as a whole is experiencing a lot of volatility, put options can act as insurance against downside risk.

Overall, energy stocks may not fully capture oil price moves since companies hedge against some of the volatility, and also make other decisions for shareholder value that may not have direct influence from the oil price.

Investing in alternative fuels is not only good for the environment, it's a smart move for our company as biofuels have the potential to hedge against future oil price volatility and carbon regulations.

«Accordingly, as we concluded in D.P.U. 10 - 54, at 229 - 230, the Cape Wind facility will produce far greater benefits in terms of its: (1) contribution to narrowing the projected gap between supply and demand of renewable resources; (2) contribution to compliance with GWSA emission reductions requirements; (3) contribution to fuel diversity; (4) price suppression effects; (5) ability to act as a hedge against future fuel price increases and volatility; (6) contribution to system reliability; and (7) ability to moderate system peak load.

Green energy would not protect against such volatility, and given renewable energy's own inherent volatility, wind and sunshine being subject to Nature's whims, green autarky might amplify energy price volatility.

In other words, fossil fuel price increases and volatility will increase energy bills, and measures which reduce consumption and shift production away from fossil fuel sources are a way of hedging against this.

In a bravura performance, Shultz articulated the rationales for a carbon tax (and against cap / trade), including cap / trade's price volatility and vulnerability to market manipulation, a carbon tax's straightforwardness, and the success (and revenue - neutrality) of British Columbia's carbon tax, as well as the general power of pricing and the insurance value of a carbon tax.

Beta is a measure of an individual stock's price volatility against a broader market measure, which is typically an index like the S&P 500.

The price of Bitcoin had been undergoing massive volatility as regulators around the globe are taking up final stands either in favour of or against the cryptocurrency revolution.

Underpinned by elastic algorithm - controlled monetary policy, the team behind USDX Protocol stated that the system will ensure that / USDY will never stray too far from its pegged value, thus safeguarding against volatility in price, which is a major issue for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.

The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) is progressively becoming the first inversely - correlated asset (to my knowledge) to provide moderate protection against wildly fluctuating Bitcoin prices.

There are four goals of price stable Smart Coins (bitAssets)-- a relatively reliable solution to predict the future value of a token, a predictable stable price with reduced volatility, hedging against volatile cryptocurrency markets and price action, and a unit of account distinct from assets with capital gains or losses (which has increased tax liability).

Not only will close monitoring of exchanges help against abuse, but they will also help reduce price volatility.

Well, exactly what we were expecting in the sense that we couldn't really have predicted how price would move against a backdrop of a substantial degree of volatility.

● Token holders (including strategic investors and miners) seeking to post their assets as collateral in order to free up capital or earn income; ● Speculators and market - makers aiming to benefit from price volatility and to capture arbitrage opportunities; ● Early post-crowdsale entities with idle crypto assets, that could be lent against collateral, providing income generation; ● Tokenomy - powered / Tokenomy - anchored businesses demanding liquidity and liquidity management tools to deploy liquidity surpluses, or to cover liquidity gaps; ● Crypto investment funds seeking interest income through the lending of their portfolio assets (while retaining exposure); ● Crypto exchanges looking to provide more trading options to their clients.

Essentially, it exists to reduce the price volatility of the Dai against the US Dollar.

With cryptocurrency futures, the concept for the market will remain the same — hedging cryptocurrencies against the volatility of future prices.

Furthermore, businesses that have avoided using Bitcoin as a form of payment for large - scale transactions that involved terms, due to the unpredictable volatility of the currency, will now be able to guarantee the value of a transaction using futures contracts to hedges against adverse market price movements, similar to the way businesses handle international transactions.

Tether has proven to be a unique payment service that protects its customers against Bitcoin's price volatility.

Tether protects against Bitcoin price volatility by backing payments with fiat currency on a 1:1 ratio.

This means that more equity will be required to remain sitting in the home as a buffer for contingencies and as a protection against market volatilities that would affect expenses and sales prices for defaulted HECM loans.