Sentences with phrase «other arbitrageurs»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Arbitrageurs, who typically make short - term bets around the outcomes of deals and other major transactions, own roughly 350 million shares or 20 percent of the company's outstanding stock, one of the investors estimated.

Now, to correct this difference, the ETF arbitrageur (who are these guys anyway, are they big firms like Goldman) will short some shares of ETF, use the money to purchase the underlying basket of stocks, which will raise the price of underlying stocks, so that now SPY and the underlying mirror each other in price.

This price difference of 30 to 35 was previously unheard of, since arbitrageurs like us generally kept the two prices within a point or two of each other.

There are other risks associated with instruments like ADR's and cross-listed companies, but normally arbitrageurs will remove these discontinuities quickly.