delta

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Given the nature of delta hedging options, their activity, especially when approaching option expiry, can amplify or exaggerate market moves significantly.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 10, 2025

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife wrote that it is concerned about weakened protections for winter-run and spring-run chinook salmon, steelhead trout, delta smelt and longfin smelt.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025

Perseverance was dispatched to the Jezero Crater because it showed qualities that may have meant it was once conducive to life, including signs it was once a delta when Mars could sustain liquid surface water.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2025

"But the Mesopotamian delta was anything but. Its restless, shifting land demanded ingenuity and cooperation, sparking some of history's first intensive farming and pioneering bold social experiments."

From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2025

He’s in a delta somewhere but we don’t know any more than that because he isn’t allowed to tell us and he doesn’t write home much anyway.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt