may decrease subsequent to the pricing date of an issue of the LIRNs, which may adversely affect the market value of the LIRNs.
We, the Guarantor or one or more of our other affiliates, including the selling agents, also expect to engage in hedging activities that could have the effect of increasing the value of the Market Measure or a Basket Component on the applicable pricing date. In addition, these hedging activities, including the unwinding of a hedge, may decrease the market value of your LIRNs prior to maturity and may reduce the Redemption Amount.
We, the Guarantor or one or more of our other affiliates, including the selling agents, may purchase or otherwise acquire a long or short position in the LIRNs and may hold or resell the LIRNs. For example, the selling agents may enter into these transactions in connection with any market making activities in which they engage. We cannot assure you that these activities will not adversely affect the value of the Market Measure or a Basket Component, the market value of your LIRNs prior to maturity or the Redemption Amount.
Our trading, hedging and other business activities, and those of the Guarantor and any of our other affiliates, including the selling agents, may create conflicts of interest with you. We, the Guarantor or one or more of our other affiliates, including the selling agents, may engage in trading activities related to the Market Measure or Basket Component, as applicable, and to components included in the Market Measure or Basket Component (and related futures and options contracts on the Market Measure, a Basket Component or their respective components) that are not for your account or on your behalf. We, the Guarantor or one or more of our other affiliates, including the selling agents, also may issue or underwrite other financial instruments with returns based upon the applicable Market Measure, Basket Component or their respective components. These trading and other business activities may present a conflict of interest between your interest in the LIRNs and the interests we, the Guarantor and our other affiliates, including the selling agents, may have in our or their proprietary accounts, in facilitating transactions, including block trades, for our or their other customers, and in accounts under our or their management. These trading and other business activities, if they influence the value of the Market Measure or Basket Component or secondary trading in your LIRNs, could be adverse to your interests as a beneficial owner of the LIRNs.
We, the Guarantor and one or more of our other affiliates, including the selling agents, expect to enter into arrangements or adjust or close out existing transactions to hedge our obligations under the LIRNs. We, the Guarantor or our other affiliates, including the selling agents, also may enter into hedging transactions relating to other notes or instruments that we or they issue, some of which may have returns calculated in a manner related to that of a particular issue of the LIRNs. We may enter into such hedging arrangements with one or more of our affiliates. Our affiliates may enter into additional hedging transactions with other parties relating to the LIRNs and the applicable Market Measure or Basket Components. This hedging activity is expected to result in a profit to those engaging in the hedging activity, which could be more or less than initially expected, but could also result in a loss. We, the Guarantor and our affiliates, including the selling agents, will price these hedging transactions with the intent to realize a profit, regardless of whether the value of the LIRNs increases or decreases or whether any payment on the LIRNs is more or less than the principal amount of the LIRNs. Any profit in connection with such hedging activities will be in addition to any other compensation that we, the Guarantor and any of our other affiliates, including the selling agents, receive for the sale of the LIRNs, which creates an additional incentive to sell the LIRNs to you.
There may be potential conflicts of interest involving the calculation agent, which is an affiliate of ours. We have the right to appoint and remove the calculation agent. One of our affiliates will be the calculation agent for the LIRNs and, as such, will determine the Starting Value, the Threshold Value, the Ending Value and the Redemption Amount. Under some circumstances, these duties could result in a conflict of interest between its status as our
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