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HEAVY CRUDE

Crude oil with 22deg or less API gravity. This is because the asphalt and other heavy hydrocarbon fractions.

HEAVY INDUSTRY

1. auto, mining, petroleum, and steel industries that need a large investment in machinery and big plants. 2. the section of economy that are in need of a lot of capital and

HEAVY LIFT VESSEL

A craft made to load and unload cargo. Ships have cranes on them for ramps or can use semisubmersible tools to do the operatoins. It can haul upto 100 tons.

HEAVY MARKET

A market with falling or non changing prices due to buyer shortages. It shows investor uncertainty.

HEAVY METAL

They can be Arsenic, Beryllium, Cadmium, Chromium, Lead, Mercury, Nickel, Selenium, and Manganese. They are used in industrial process and carried by air or water. They stay in organs and can be

HEAVY OIL

A product that remains after the lighter fractions are distilled from crude oil.

HEAVY USERS

One third of the customers of a good or service that make up two thirds of profits.

HECTARE

The land area of 10,000 m2, 107,639 ft2, 11,959 y3, 10ares, or 2.47acres.

HEDGE

An investment that takes position in futures or options to market to reduce the impact of changes in interest rates or prices. Refer to hedging.

HEDGE ACCOUNTING

When a risky trading position and hedge are treated as one to increase profits and prevent loss.

HEDGE FUND

Really risky unregulated US partnership that uses aggressive leverage to make profit when the price changes. It is restricted in tehUS to less than 100 investors with each giving 1 million each.

HEDGE RATIO

A measure that indicates the price relationship between a reference ASSET and a proxy HEDGE contract. The hedge ratio, which is generally based on a statistical process such as linear regression, reflects

HEDGER

A party that employs HEDGING techniques in order to minimize, or neutralize, RISK, often through DERIVATIVE contracts. See also HEDGE, SPECULATOR.

HEDGESTREET®

Computerized trading that lets investors trade and buy hedge funds based on web activity.

HEDGING

Limited or offsetting the loss from changes in price. It transfers risk without buying insurance.

HEIJUNKA

Coordinating the sequences of small production batches in the line to make the time it takes less. It is a Japanese model.

HEISENBERG EFFECT

The idea that the act of being a player can change the game. Answers are given based on what the interviewer wants to hear. Refer to observer inseperability. It is named after

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