Sentences with phrase «as arbitrageurs»

A wide gap between spot and futures prices increased inventory demand as arbitrageurs sought to profit from the difference between warehousing costs and the gap between spot and futures prices.

Not exact matches

Using the Plausible Deniability defense, they claimed that they weren't even in the loop when it came to paying AIG enough to turn around and pay Goldman Sachs and other arbitrageurs 100 cents on the dollar for securities worth about a fifth as much.

As noted earlier, arbitrageurs obtain a twofold gain: the margin between Brazil's nearly 12 % yield on its long - term government bonds and the cost of U.S. credit (1 %), plus the foreign - exchange gain resulting from the fact that the outflow from dollars into reals has pushed up the real's exchange rate some 30 % — from R$ 2.50 at the start of 2009 to $ 1.75 last week.

And in the stock market itself, price / earnings ratios are falling as the credit that fueled stock - market speculation by hedge funds and other arbitrageurs is cut back.

Arbitrageurs made billions by acting as financial intermediaries making income on the margin between low yen - borrowing costs and high foreign - currency interest rates.

Arbitrageurs aim to hold onto their cryptocurrency for as little time as possible.

Carl Icahn got his start as a closed end fund arbitrageur, who would force the managements of the closed - ends funds that traded at large discounts to NAV, to buy - back their shares.

Whether it's a weekly, monthly, quarterly, or any futures contract, as long as it's in a premium, an arbitrageur can lock the sales price and earn the arbitrageur profit.

There are also market participants involved with both near - term predictions and fundamental analysis — to wit, short sellers and risk arbitrageurs (risk arbitrage is defined as investing in situations where there are reasonably determinate workouts in reasonably determinate periods of time).

When the price of the futures and that of the basket of underlying stocks converged, as they do later when the futures contracts settle, the arbitrageur closes out the hedge and captures the original spread as a profit.

But the institutions had sold massive amounts of futures, and the index itself didn't fall nearly as far because the terrified arbitrageurs wouldn't exploit the spread.

The most public face of deep value investing is Carl Icahn, known for his «battering - ram personality,» who has had a long, storied career as a discount options broker, arbitrageur and liquidator of closed - end mutual funds, corporate raider, and activist investor.

I have no doubts the acquisition will close, but I'm leaving the last sub-1 % gain on the table here for the arbitrageurs, as I'm happy to use the proceeds for new holdings.