and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk Our multinational operations expose us to a variety of market risks, which embody the potential for changes in the fair value of the financial instruments or the cash flows deriving from them. Our risk management policies and those of each of our businesses seek to limit the adverse effects of these market risks on the financial performance of each of our businesses and, consequently, on our consolidated financial performance. Each of our businesses bear responsibility for the establishment and oversight of their financial risk management framework and have adopted individualized risk management policies to address those risks specific to their operations. Our primary market risk exposures are to: • currency risk, as a result of changes in the rates of exchange of various foreign currencies (in particular, the Euro and the New Israeli Shekel) in relation to the U.S. Dollar, our functional currency and the currency against which we measure our exposure; • index risk, as a result of changes in the Consumer Price Index; • interest rate risk, as a result of changes in the market interest rates affecting certain of our businesses’ issuance of debt and related financial instruments; and • price risk, as a result of changes in market prices, such as the price of certain commodities (e.g., natural gas and heavy fuel oil). For further information on our market risks and the sensitivity analyses of these risks, see Note 28—Financial Instruments to our financial statements included in this annual report.