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Macomb Corporation is a U.S. firm that invoices some of its exports in Japanese yen. If it expects the yen to weaken, it could _______ to hedge the exchange rate risk on those exports.

sell yen put options
buy yen call options
buy futures contracts on yen
sell with futures contracts on yen

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