arbitrage
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Rather, they are doing arbitrage, such as buying a bond while selling an equivalent futures contract to another investor, pocketing the difference in price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
However, the Korean shares cannot be converted into ADRs, preventing arbitrage by exploiting the discrepancy.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
The harvest was a series of crises, notably the 1998 collapse of the hedge fund Long Term Capital Management, which was founded by Nobel economics laureates to pursue abstruse arbitrage trades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Many takeover arbitrage situations offer spreads of 5% to 10% with longer periods until expected closing.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
He suspected, not unreasonably, that he might be the only person in Berkeley looking for arbitrage opportunities in the market for credit derivatives.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
I was selling a car that I had arbitraged to rent out on Turo, which turned out to be a poor investment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
Instacart had arbitraged customer anger onto the most vulnerable people in the system.
From The Verge ● May 26, 2020
It got arbitraged away by greedy investors who hunted it to extinction once the word got out.
From Forbes ● Jan. 26, 2015
Derman used to be a "quant," one of the nerdy rocket scientists who built models of how markets work and how they can be arbitraged.
From Reuters ● Jan. 27, 2012
From the truism that the average investor could not beat the market after costs, academics developed the insight that obvious market-beating opportunities would quickly be arbitraged away.
From Economist ● Feb. 24, 2011
You’re basically arbitraging between the price just before and the price just after.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2026
Alameda found early trading success by arbitraging cryptocurrency prices on international markets, with half of profits going to charity, according to the same profile.
From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2022
He noticed the variations in the value of Bitcoin across different cryptocurrency exchanges and started arbitraging - buying Bitcoin from places selling it cheap and selling to other places where it was trading for more.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2022
“We definitely are a part of bringing the prices down, there’s no question about that, because we are arbitraging factories and countries all the time,” he said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2013
For after all, all cabling, arbitraging in exchange, drawing of finance bills, etc., is only incidental.
From Elements of Foreign Exchange A Foreign Exchange Primer by Escher, Franklin
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