Investopedia / Madelyn Goodnight A hedge is ... minimize various risk exposures. A hedge is effectively an offsetting or opposite position taken that will gain (or lose) in value as the primary ...

Our choice of gold as a potential hedge is ... to take China risk to find value, though. We invest in Japan, Southeast Asia, Europe, and Latin America, where price/earnings ratios are more often ...

The euro could rise against the dollar if eurozone investors increase their protection against the risk of volatility in the U.S. currency, BNP Paribas analysts said.