Consider a firm that needs to purchase plastic for packaging the goods it produces. Arranging a forward
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Consider a firm that needs to purchase plastic for packaging the goods it produces. Arranging a forward contract on plastic may not be quite reasonable, but since plastic is made out of oil, the oil price is a correlated risk factor. We do not really want to take a long position in a forward contract on oil and actually buy it. However, we may take a long position in oil futures and then close our position, before the maturity of the hedging instruments, without having to take the physical delivery of oil.
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