How to Use arbitrage in a Sentence

arbitrage

1 of 2 noun

• This has opened the arbitrage window for U.S. oil exporters to ship their crude abroad.
  — Dan Eberhart, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• While arbitrage traders were shorting the stock to cash out, meme traders stepped in trying to pump up the stock, squeeze out the shorts, and cash out before the stock price returned to earth.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 15 Aug. 2022
• The dynamic can result in a run on the currency, which is sufficient for the arbitrage to fall apart in the short term.
  — Vineer Bhansali, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• But don’t be surprised to find some balance sheet arbitrage there.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 1 July 2018
• The arbitrage play on the acquisition was an out-of-character move to make short term gains.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2022
• Investors were promised up to 7% interest per week, and that their funds would be used for bitcoin arbitrage.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 16 Feb. 2022
• The immediate losers are the arbitrage hedge funds that piled into NXP.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 26 July 2018
• Meanwhile, the markets in Chicago and New York were being linked by the technique of index arbitrage.
  — Burton G. Malkiel, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2017
• This was the magic of labor arbitrage, the movement of jobs to produce goods or services from high-cost regions to low-cost regions.
  — Willy Shih, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Merger arbitrage funds, which bet on whether corporate deals will come to fruition, gained 2.63 percent.
  — James B. Stewart, New York Times, 12 July 2018
• Bankman-Fried organized an arbitrage trade to take advantage of the the higher bitcoin price in Japan and moved as much as $25 million in bitcoin each day.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2022
• For example, if Terra drops below a dollar, arbitrage traders swoop in to buy Terra on the cheap and exchange it for $1 worth of Luna.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 12 May 2022
• That spread implies that merger arbitrage funds have some doubts about the deal closing, but Takeda shares look cheap no matter what happens.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2018
• This ability to take advantage of time arbitrage has served the company and shareholders well over the years.
  — Bill Stone, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2021
• The report led to a ban on dividend arbitrage tied to stock in United States corporations.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2020
• The county’s contemporary image is hard to escape, but the region was a very different place before the era of arbitrage and hedge funds.
  — Cullen Murphy, Vanities, 9 Aug. 2017
• The merger arbitrage index, which is compiled by HFR, declined 0.75 percent during the month.
  — Leslie Picker, New York Times, 11 May 2016
• It is often cited as being about tax arbitrage, i.e., Switzerland, not France.
  — Rich Karlgaard, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
• Redbox shares were trading around $6 when the sale was announced, but rather than collapse, the stock went up, to as high as $18, as retail traders and arbitrage opportunists fought to manipulate the stock and make a buck off the sale.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 15 Aug. 2022
• It was followed by relative value/ arbitrage and multi-strategy funds, both with returns in the 14% range.
  — Jacob Wolinsky, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• Mr Liu can deploy wage arbitrage between the richest and poorest places, using the internet.
  — The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
• Many traders have turned to derivatives and arbitrage strategies on DeFi apps for a chance to amplify their returns in a white-hot market.
  — Paul Vigna, WSJ, 3 June 2021
• Broken deals have whipsawed hedge funds that focus on merger arbitrage, a type of trading that places bets on the likelihood that deals will be completed.
  — Leslie Picker, New York Times, 11 May 2016
• The delicate arbitrage of state taxes is governed less by the constraints of the physical world than by the dream palace of accounting innovation.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• The details will have to be worked out, but the idea is to transfer the investment risk from workers and retirees to creditors while exploiting interest-rate arbitrage.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2018
• Aon-Willis Towers is one of the biggest deals in the universe known as merger arbitrage, where investors bet on whether company combinations go through.
  — Ben Dummett, WSJ, 2 July 2021
• Merger arbitrage hedge funds can congratulate themselves on a big win from Takeda’s $62 billion takeover of Shire Plc.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• That substantial return might seem like something of a no-brainer, but in the world of merger arbitrage the number of moving parts in this deal make betting on its success a risky proposition.
  — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2023
• Regulatory and tax arbitrage is alive and well in banking—and one Nordic bank is taking advantage.
  — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
• This contrasts with the previous method, which required payment in accordance with the fluctuating market price of oil on the day of purchase, making arbitrage difficult.
  — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 13 June 2023

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arbitrage

2 of 2 verb

• Sell the beer at a reasonable price (whatever that means), and all of the sudden it's being arbitraged left and right.
  — Aaron Goldfarb, Esquire, 6 Oct. 2015
• Another puzzle with anomalies is why they are not arbitraged away.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• One explanation is that foreigners have direct access to the market, and so large price gaps can be arbitraged away quickly.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2018
• Were this only a matter of firms arbitraging better rates and swapping back to dollars, the Americans would be dominated by banks.
  — Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2019
• Now, before this comes off as a tribute to arbitrage and saving pennies on the margins for billionaire owners, a reminder that what makes the Dodgers so imposing and the Giants potentially so is smarts stacked atop resources.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2021
• One advantage of ETFs is that shares can be readily created and redeemed to arbitrage away any discount or premium, which could greatly broaden their appeal.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2021
• Flexe is arbitraging the mismatch between supply and demand, taking a commission for each transaction.
  — Spencer Soper, Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2017
• Of course, cryptocurrency mining is hardly the first industry to arbitrage electricity prices to make some good's production more profitable.
  — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2018
• One risk is that, as local investors clamour to buy them, CDRs will trade at a huge premium to their foreign counterparts. Because of capital controls, there is no channel for arbitraging between onshore and offshore markets.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• Korea’s Forex Rules To arbitrage the price gaps between bitcoin venues in Korea and elsewhere, local traders must first exchange their won into a foreign currency, such as the dollar or euro, that’s accepted by overseas cryptocurrency venues.
  — Julie Verhage, Bloomberg.com, 9 Jan. 2018
• Localized cancer, headline risk—call it what you will, these episodes create wrinkles in the investment time-space continuum that long-term investors can use to arbitrage between perception and reality.
  — Adam Seessel, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2019
• As Ars Technica points out, arbitraging cheap power is a widespread business tactic in industries as diverse as aluminum production and marijuana cultivation.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2018
• Sell the beer at a reasonable price (whatever that means), and all of the sudden it's being arbitraged left and right.
  — Aaron Goldfarb, Esquire, 6 Oct. 2015
• Another puzzle with anomalies is why they are not arbitraged away.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• One explanation is that foreigners have direct access to the market, and so large price gaps can be arbitraged away quickly.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2018
• Were this only a matter of firms arbitraging better rates and swapping back to dollars, the Americans would be dominated by banks.
  — Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2019
• Now, before this comes off as a tribute to arbitrage and saving pennies on the margins for billionaire owners, a reminder that what makes the Dodgers so imposing and the Giants potentially so is smarts stacked atop resources.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2021
• One advantage of ETFs is that shares can be readily created and redeemed to arbitrage away any discount or premium, which could greatly broaden their appeal.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2021
• Flexe is arbitraging the mismatch between supply and demand, taking a commission for each transaction.
  — Spencer Soper, Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2017
• Of course, cryptocurrency mining is hardly the first industry to arbitrage electricity prices to make some good's production more profitable.
  — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2018
• One risk is that, as local investors clamour to buy them, CDRs will trade at a huge premium to their foreign counterparts. Because of capital controls, there is no channel for arbitraging between onshore and offshore markets.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• Korea’s Forex Rules To arbitrage the price gaps between bitcoin venues in Korea and elsewhere, local traders must first exchange their won into a foreign currency, such as the dollar or euro, that’s accepted by overseas cryptocurrency venues.
  — Julie Verhage, Bloomberg.com, 9 Jan. 2018
• Localized cancer, headline risk—call it what you will, these episodes create wrinkles in the investment time-space continuum that long-term investors can use to arbitrage between perception and reality.
  — Adam Seessel, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2019
• As Ars Technica points out, arbitraging cheap power is a widespread business tactic in industries as diverse as aluminum production and marijuana cultivation.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2018

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