Sentences with phrase «hedge against uncertainty»

Setting those areas aside would help lock away carbon and shore up wildlife habitat, but they also serve as a hedge against the uncertainty of rising global temperatures, Asner said.

Market makers keep their spreads wider at the beginning and end of trading hours to hedge against this uncertainty.

Such considerations reinforce Miron's position that bonds hedge against uncertainty.

Gold is the best hedge against uncertainty there is, and it's also a useful thing to have in your portfolio if inflation is rising, as some foresee, or if the U.S. dollar's decline worsens.

2) I suspect (and this is a bit of a pet theory of mine) that Apple stays in the ebook space primarily to disrupt the educational textbook market (I think that iBooks Author + iTunesU + «cheap» iPad 2s = a strategy for fostering disruption in education at the grass - roots level); their presence in trade publishing is relatively incidental (this may have not been so at the start — I also suspect that launching iBooks along with iPad was initially a hedge against uncertainty about user adoption and viable use cases for the iPad.

Businesses like steady costs, and Christian Kjaer of the European Wind Energy Association points to the predictability of a windmill's energy output over many years as «a hedge against the uncertainty of fuel prices.»

This is due to gold's historical role as a store of purchasing power and a hedge against uncertainty.

Not exact matches

«There's underlying demand for gold as a hedge against political uncertainties on both sides of the Atlantic,» said Ole Hanson, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank.

And in part because that recession hasn't hit yet, health care is still up in the air, and it makes sense to keep hedging against sequence risk and health insurance uncertainty.

It is used as a hedge against inflation; safe - haven asset in times of wars and political uncertainty; alternate asset class to equities and fixed - income instruments; near - cash; and metal of choice in a number of industries.

They originated in agriculture as a way of hedging against falling prices and other uncertainties, but now they can be bought and sold for virtually any asset out there (as long as there are people willing to buy and sell them).

The airwaves were full opiners who warned of a market that is fully valued.Gundlach and Dalio added their two cents for measure, espousing the need to hold GOLD as a hedge against geopolitical uncertainties.

Gold is often used a hedge against stock market uncertainty and when there are perceived geopolitical risks that are impacting on market valuation and investors outlook.

To protect (hedge) against the uncertainty of agave prices, CTC can enter into a futures contract (or its less regulated cousin, the forward contract), which allows the company to buy the agave at a specific price at a set date in the future.

In a research note, Barclays Capital explains «For analysts... gold has traditionally been a tricky one due to its multiple roles as a commodity, currency, inflation hedge and hedge against credit risk and macroeconomic uncertainty.

A cash flow hedge lets a business hedge the uncertainty of cash outflow in interest payments on its variable - rate liability against changes in market interest rates by swapping to a fixed - rate liability.

He suggests a broad mix of investments as a hedging strategy against market uncertainty.

Precious metals like gold can hedge your cash assets against future financial uncertainty.

In times of uncertainty investors turn to Gold as a hedge against unforeseen disasters since physical gold is one of the few investments that is not simultaneously an asset and someone else's liability.

Usually there's space between when you've hit your company's match and when you've maxed out, so for people that can't max out both it can be a good opportunity to hedge against future tax uncertainty by having a portion of your retirement savings already have taxes paid.

More and more investors are adding to their collections not only for the aesthetic value these works bring to their collections, but also as a hedge against inflation, economic uncertainty and market volatility.

In fact, he and others say that uncertainty is one reason to act — as a hedge against the prospect that PROBLEMS COULD BE MUCH WORSE THAN PROJECTED.

Bitcoin on the other hand is the most radically inclusive store of value on the planet and possibly the best hedge against global economic uncertainty and if you don't have any at all, you most definitely do not have a swiss bank account in your pocket.