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Knowledge@Wharton February 12, 2003	The Changing Use of Derivatives: More Hedging, Less Speculation High-risk gambles like those that torpedoed Orange County, Gibson and P&G are far less likely than conservative plays meant to hedge against loss in underlying markets such as energy, commodities or currencies.
Salon.com June 26, 2002 Damien Cave	Foxes guarding the chicken coop President Bush's nominees to the agency that should have regulated Enron's derivatives trading instead helped write the rules that let the company do whatever it wanted in the first place.
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BusinessWeek November 24, 2010 Schmidt & Brush	Will Currency Derivatives Get a Pass on Oversight? Banks want them exempted. Geithner is caught between bankers and regulators on how much oversight to give currency derivatives.
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HBS Working Knowledge March 20, 2006 Ann Cullen	Unlocking Your Investment Capital Many companies can double or even triple their capacity to invest in strategic assets and competencies by properly managing their risk balance sheet.
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Finance & Development June 1, 2000 Anne Y. Kester	Improving the Framework for Reporting on International Reserves During the international financial crises of the late 1990s, deficiencies were uncovered in the publicly available information on countries' international reserves. A new template and operational guidelines have been developed to promote improved disclosure of such data.
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