arbitrage
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arbitrage
- /ˈɑɹbɪˌtɹɑʒ/ US
- /ˈɑɹbɪtɹɪd͡ʒ/ US
Rhymes with -ɑːʒ, -ɪdʒ
Where it comes from
An unadapted borrowing from French arbitrage, from arbitrer (“to arbitrate”); see arbitrate.
noun arbitrages
- A market activity in which a security, commodity, currency or other tradable item is bought in one market and sold simultaneously in another, in order to profit from price differences between the markets. But in recent years, for reasons we shall develop later, the field of "arbitrages and workouts" became riskier and less profitable.
- Arbitration.
verb arbitrages · arbitraging · arbitraged
- To employ arbitrage He has arbitraged by purchasing in one market and simultaneously selling the same or similar merchandise in another market.
- To engage in arbitrage in, between, or among Indeed, as banks become more adept at internal risk classifications, their incentives to arbitrage economic and regulatory capital can only increase
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noun market activity
| Español | arbitraje de valores mercantiles, compraventa entre mercados |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 鞘取り sayatori |
| 中文 | 套利 tàolì |
| Português | arbitragem |
| Français | arbitrage |
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