Article: Ten major Chinese companies granted access to foreign futures markets for risk hedging.

Article: Leading Chinese metal smelters granted access to foreign futures ...
China Business News;  April 11, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... access to foreign futures markets for risk hedging Shanghai. April 11. INTERFAX-CHINA - Ten major Chinese companies, including seven metal smelters ... trade futures contracts overseas for risk hedging. The majority of the seven companies ...

Article: Exposed: gaps in risk hedging.
Australasian Business Intelligence;  February 11, 2003 ;     425 words ...Feb 10, 2003 (BRW - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian companies are facing a future in which risk hedging is going to become an integral part of their business plans. This means venturing into the complex world of derivative instruments ...

Article: Risk-hedging tools becoming popular; Programs aim ...
Business Insurance;  February 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ...As companies try to come to grips with the host of risks they face, several tools beyond traditional insurance coverage are available to help them do so. A growing sense that ``risk is risk'' is prompting many companies to look across their organizations to identify exposures that may threaten

Article: Default Risk Hedging for Lease Portfolios
The Journal of Equipment Lease Financing (Online);  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...The use of derivatives to hedge risk is growing exponentially, especially in the over-the-counter (OTC) market. Figure 1 illustrates the growth in OTC derivatives trade volume between 2005 and 2006. The volume increase in credit derivatives far exceeded the growth in the other asset categories.

Article: Removing a risk: Hedging with NDFs and NDOs in ...
Global Finance;  February 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Most developing countries' central banks require documentation to bring foreign exchange into the country. Some, Brazil among them, levy a tax-Brazil's is 7%-on such transactions. Emerging markets are also subject to convertibility risk, the possibility that a central bank will suddenly not allow

Article: Interest rate risk hedging for asset-sensitive ...
Texas Banking;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...'In a rising rate environment, the asset-sensitive bank reaps the benefits of its posture. Unfortunately, though, as rates decline, so do earnings' Many community banks are asset sensitive and consequently exposed to declining interest rates. An asset sensitive bank has more repricing interest

Article: KOFEX Emerging as Risk-Hedging Tool.
Korea Times (Seoul, Korea);  April 23, 2001 ;     700+ words ...``Most Korean companies are inclined to overlook the importance of business risk management. In order to avoid overexposure to such risks, they will have to recognize the importance of the futures market and know how to hedge their business risks said Lee In-won, 57, chairman of KOFEX in an