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HEDGE TRANSACTION [5 records]

Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
  • Stock Exchange
  • Trade
DEF

... a transaction that reduces the risk of an investment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
  • Bourse
  • Commerce
DEF

Opération réalisée dans le but de réduire ou de compenser l'exposition à un ou plusieurs risques financiers.

OBS

L'opération consiste à prendre une position exposée à des effets équivalents, mais de sens contraire, aux effets des fluctuations de marché sur une position actuelle ou prévue.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión presupuestaria y financiera
  • Bolsa de valores
  • Comercio
DEF

Compra o venta cuyo objeto es protegerse reduciendo los riesgos inherentes a la fluctuación de los precios.

OBS

cobertura: término extraído del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

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Record 2 2010-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
CONT

... entered into hedge and share option transactions, as well as pursuing investment strategies involving both spreads and straddles.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-09-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
  • Investment
DEF

A hedge of the exposure to variability in cash flows that(i) is attributable to a particular risk associated with a recognized asset or liability(such as all or some future interest payments on variable rate debt) or a highly probable forecast transaction and(ii) could affect profit or loss.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
  • Investissements et placements
DEF

Couverture établie dans le but de réduire ou de compenser l'exposition à un risque particulier susceptible d'entraîner une variabilité des flux de trésorerie futurs associés à un actif ou à un passif, ou encore à une opération prévue.

Spanish

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Record 4 1998-06-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
DEF

A transaction where assets/liabilities are matched by currency.

Key term(s)
  • currency hedge transaction

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Política monetaria y mercado de cambios
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Record 5 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
OBS

hedge : Any purchase or sale transaction having as its purpose the elimination of profit or loss arising from price fluctuations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
OBS

hedge : Protection, couverture contre les pertes financières résultant de l'inflation, des fluctuations des changes ou des cotations du marché et revêtant la forme d'une assurance, d'un arbitrage.

Spanish

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