Sentence examples for offsetting position from inspiring English sources
A hedge is a strategy that reduces your risk of losses when the market fluctuates, usually by investing in an offsetting position.
The person who insures the buyer against default has to take an offsetting position in the government bond.
Hedge funds went on the attack as they took offsetting positions in anticipation that the bank couldn't hold the trade.
At the Wednesday press conference, Mr. Bernanke said that commonly cited data on derivatives do not take into account the offsetting positions banks have on their Greek exposures.
Like Long-Term Capital, the big Wall Street firms rely on a diversified portfolio of assets, with a large number of offsetting positions, to prevent such an eventuality.
"Recent reports and calculations appear to have been focusing only on long inventory of $2.684 billion but not taking into account the fact that there were offsetting short positions in such sovereign debt of $2.545 billion as well as offsetting positions in futures instruments," the firm said.
Mason has no real economic interest in the future of the company because of its offsetting positions, but it can still vote its 19 percent against the share conversion proposal.
When derivative contracts expire, investors who own the stocks in the index and have offsetting positions in futures or options may wish to sell the stocks at the same price that will be used to calculate the value of the expiring index option or future.
After including the hedges and offsetting positions that their banks have in Ireland, and allowing that loans to vehicles in Ireland may in turn be loaned to other countries, German banks' exposures to Ireland are far lower than the headline BIS figures.
And because you're able to see the hedge in one spot, it actually is risk mitigating that these are offsetting positions.
They found that when the male position was skewed a bit to one side or the other during copulation, the fungi appeared later on the female in a similarly offset position.
