Sentence examples for hedge programs from inspiring English sources
"It looks like mining companies are pulling out of their hedge programs left and right," said Carlos Perez-Santalla, a gold trader at Hudson River Futures in New York.
This paper examines the optimal design of a futures hedge program for a risk-averse multinational firm (MNF) under exchange rate uncertainty.
Net profits sank on nearly $1 billion in realized losses and related adjustments, tied largely to the falling value of derivatives used in the company's hedging programs.
That's how it should work," said Jonathan Leak, a senior vice president for risk management at World Fuel Services, which puts together fuel-hedging programs for airlines.
SIA has one of the industry's most active fuel-hedging programs (Southwest, again, is in this game); futures-market trades in jet fuel gave SIA an average cost for six months 16% below the spot price.
That's because most E&P companies engage in substantial hedging programs that can leave them with average realized oil and gas prices that fall well below the current market price.
For multi-faceted decisions, other financial tools such as forwards markets and hedging programs can, where appropriate, be used to limit exposure to market fluctuations, allowing the operators of businesses subject to environmental risk to extract more value from long range climate forecasts while controlling the risks related to economic and financial factors.
The company credited significant cost-cutting and a hedging program that held down its fuel costs.
Gary C. Kelly, chief executive of Southwest, was the architect of the fuel hedging program when he was chief financial officer.
Fuel expenses rose 31percentt, less than at some other airlines because of Delta's fuel-hedging program.
Michele Burns, Delta's chief financial officer and executive vice president, took time last week to discuss how the airline manages its hedging program.
