risk-free

Example Sentences

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A team cannot play without a goalkeeper, so it became a risk-free method of impacting the opposition, or getting the opportunity to talk to your team.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

The world has regularly obliged by rushing to buy Treasury debt at a lower yield than before the calamity because of the risk-free securities’ haven status.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Germany’s 10-year bund yield, a proxy for risk-free rates in the eurozone, was just shy of 3%, the highest since 2007.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

Spreads in the roughly $9.5 trillion agency mortgage-bond market have been moving higher, with the “current coupon” near 5.25%, which is a spread of about 125 basis points above the risk-free Treasury rate.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 17, 2026

The Wall Street bond traders on the other end of the phone from Howie Hubler came away with the impression that he considered these bets entirely risk-free.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis