riskless
Example Sentences
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If there were no uncertainty, there’d be no risk, and all investments would yield the exact same riskless return.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
While hedge funds cannot engage in riskless arbitrage, they can and probably will trade the spread.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Even if BQ.1 or BQ.1.1 don’t make people sicker, that’s not to say their rise is riskless.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
Those who learn of the pending filing “face a nearly riskless opportunity for profitable trading, if they act quickly.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2016
Wall Street was already making too much money using CDOs to turn crappy triple-B-rated subprime bonds into putatively riskless triple-A ones to simply stop doing it.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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