One platform to quantify and act on business risk.
One platform to quantify and act on business risk.
Shielded compares market pricing, research, and historical context to evaluate hedging and buying decisions. Understand what’s moving your markets and what it means for your business.
Shielded compares market pricing, research, and historical context to evaluate hedging and buying decisions. Understand what’s moving your markets and what it means for your business.
Shielded compares market pricing, research, and historical context to evaluate hedging and buying decisions. Understand what’s moving your markets and what it means for your business.
Overview
Sensitivity
Data
Connect data
Markets
Commodities
Currency / FX
Rates / Credit
Shipping
Analysis
Geopolitical events
Scenario analysis
Alerts
Act
Recommended actions
Hedge simulator
Market overview
Food Processing Inc.
Brent crude / bbl
$74.45
−11.36%
over 6M
Gold / oz
$2,261
+10.28%
over 6M
EUR / USD
1.0924
+1.62%
over 6M
Brent crude
$74.45
USD/bbl
Illustrative historical price
Window high / low
USD / barrel
Window change
−5.90%
Window low
$74.14
Window high
$84.48
Illustrative exposure
100,000
Barrels · illustrative purchase
If the market rises 10%
+$745k
Increase in unhedged purchase cost
Connect market context to the exposure your team manages.
Recommended action
Re-source affected SKUs to domestic suppliers and refresh list pricing before the effective date.
Take action
Overview
Sensitivity
Data
Connect data
Markets
Commodities
Currency / FX
Rates / Credit
Shipping
Analysis
Geopolitical events
Scenario analysis
Alerts
Act
Recommended actions
Hedge simulator
Market overview
Food Processing Inc.
Brent crude / bbl
$74.45
−11.36%
over 6M
Gold / oz
$2,261
+10.28%
over 6M
EUR / USD
1.0924
+1.62%
over 6M
Brent crude
$74.45
USD/bbl
Illustrative historical price
Window high / low
USD / barrel
Window change
−5.90%
Window low
$74.14
Window high
$84.48
Illustrative exposure
100,000
Barrels · illustrative purchase
If the market rises 10%
+$745k
Increase in unhedged purchase cost
Connect market context to the exposure your team manages.
Recommended action
Re-source affected SKUs to domestic suppliers and refresh list pricing before the effective date.
Take action
Market overview
Food Processing Inc.
Brent crude
$74.45
USD/bbl
Window change
−5.90%
Window low
$74.14
Window high
$84.48
Illustrative exposure
100,000
Barrels · illustrative purchase
If the market rises 10%
+$745k
Increase in unhedged purchase cost
Market overview
Food Processing Inc.
Brent crude
$74.45
USD/bbl
Window change
−5.90%
Window low
$74.14
Window high
$84.48
Illustrative exposure
100,000
Barrels · illustrative purchase
If the market rises 10%
+$745k
Increase in unhedged purchase cost
Market data, matched to your suppliers and contracts.
Shielded tracks commodity prices, currency rates and market events, and links each one to the parts of your business it affects.
LME copper is up 15% in 30 days.
The price rose from $9,410 to $10,820 per tonne. Shielded checks which of your suppliers buy copper.
Two suppliers account for 60% of your copper spend.
Apex Wire & Cable supplies 42% and Keystone Harness 18%.
Apex’s contract reprices on November 12.
MSA-4471 is index-linked, so the new price applies from that date. Keystone’s PO-2290 is fixed until June 30.
The increase costs $4.4M a year, 1.7 points of gross margin.
Power distribution units account for $2.6M, the Ground Systems program $1.6M and peso exposure on Apex invoices $0.2M.
Hedging Apex volume protects $2.6M.
Shielded recommends LME futures on 1,850 t of MSA-4471 volume through May.
LME copper up 15% in 30 days
$9,410 → $10,820 per tonne · MSA-4471 reprices Nov 12
Hedge 1,850 t of MSA-4471 volume through May
Simulate →Market data, matched to your suppliers and contracts.
Shielded tracks commodity prices, currency rates and market events, and links each one to the parts of your business it affects.
LME copper is up 15% in 30 days.
The price rose from $9,410 to $10,820 per tonne. Shielded checks which of your suppliers buy copper.
Two suppliers account for 60% of your copper spend.
Apex Wire & Cable supplies 42% and Keystone Harness 18%.
Apex’s contract reprices on November 12.
MSA-4471 is index-linked, so the new price applies from that date. Keystone’s PO-2290 is fixed until June 30.
The increase costs $4.4M a year, 1.7 points of gross margin.
Power distribution units account for $2.6M, the Ground Systems program $1.6M and peso exposure on Apex invoices $0.2M.
Hedging Apex volume protects $2.6M.
Shielded recommends LME futures on 1,850 t of MSA-4471 volume through May.
LME copper up 15% in 30 days
$9,410 → $10,820 per tonne · MSA-4471 reprices Nov 12
Hedge 1,850 t of MSA-4471 volume through May
Simulate →Market data, matched to your suppliers and contracts.
Shielded tracks commodity prices, currency rates and market events, and links each one to the parts of your business it affects.
LME copper is up 15% in 30 days.
The price rose from $9,410 to $10,820 per tonne. Shielded checks which of your suppliers buy copper.
Two suppliers account for 60% of your copper spend.
Apex Wire & Cable supplies 42% and Keystone Harness 18%.
Apex’s contract reprices on November 12.
MSA-4471 is index-linked, so the new price applies from that date. Keystone’s PO-2290 is fixed until June 30.
The increase costs $4.4M a year, 1.7 points of gross margin.
Power distribution units account for $2.6M, the Ground Systems program $1.6M and peso exposure on Apex invoices $0.2M.
Hedging Apex volume protects $2.6M.
Shielded recommends LME futures on 1,850 t of MSA-4471 volume through May.
LME copper up 15% in 30 days
$9,410 → $10,820 per tonne · MSA-4471 reprices Nov 12
Hedge 1,850 t of MSA-4471 volume through May
Simulate →How it works
A connected brain for understanding markets and evaluating your next move.
Bring the market into focus.
Review relevant research, market pricing, and business exposures in one connected view.
Review relevant research, market pricing, and business exposures in one connected view.
A connected view
Illustrative
Research
Market pricing
Business context
Your market view
Currency
Commodities
Exposures
Put today’s pricing in perspective.
Compare current levels with historical ranges and see what has changed in the markets you manage.
Compare current levels with historical ranges and see what has changed in the markets you manage.
Brent crude
Synthetic history
Price history
Reference range
USD / barrel
Compare ways to respond.
Explore the tradeoffs behind hedging and buying choices before committing to an approach.
Explore the tradeoffs behind hedging and buying choices before committing to an approach.
Illustrative cost comparison
Scenario
Unhedged
Example with hedging
Cost index · baseline 100
Make the reasoning clear.
Bring the context, options, and considerations into a clear explanation your team can discuss.
Decision brief
For team review
Rationale
Market context
Recent currency movements
Business relevance
Upcoming foreign-currency payable
Options considered
Hedge part or all of the exposure
Key tradeoff
Rate certainty and flexibility
Tradeoff by approach
Hedge all of the exposure
Most certain
Certainty
Flexibility
Hedge part of the exposure
Balanced
Certainty
Flexibility
Leave the exposure open
Most flexible
Certainty
Flexibility
Decision brief
For team review
Rationale
Tradeoff
Market context
Recent currency movements
Business relevance
Upcoming foreign-currency payable
Options considered
Hedge part or all of the exposure
Key tradeoff
Rate certainty and flexibility
Make the reasoning clear.
Bring the context, options, and considerations into a clear explanation your team can discuss.
Decision brief
For team review
Rationale
Tradeoff
Market context
Recent currency movements
Business relevance
Upcoming foreign-currency payable
Options considered
Hedge part or all of the exposure
Key tradeoff
Rate certainty and flexibility
Make the reasoning clear.
Bring the context, options, and considerations into a clear explanation your team can discuss.
Decision brief
For team review
Rationale
Tradeoff
Market context
Recent currency movements
Business relevance
Upcoming foreign-currency payable
Options considered
Hedge part or all of the exposure
Key tradeoff
Rate certainty and flexibility
Bring us a market. We’ll walk through the decision.
Bring us a market. We’ll walk through the decision.
Bring us a market. We’ll walk through the decision.
Bring us a market. We’ll walk through the decision.
Shielded is something missing from the market, addressing a crucial layer in FX decision-making.
FX Hedging Lead
Global Consumer Goods Company
You guys can get so granular with quantifying risks, nobody else is doing that
CEO
Financial Services Firm
Shielded is something missing from the market, addressing a crucial layer in FX decision-making.
FX Hedging Lead
Global Consumer Goods Company
You guys can get so granular with quantifying risks, nobody else is doing that
CEO
Financial Services Firm