With a wide spread between the futures and the cash (the futures are too expensive relative to fair value), buying stocks and selling futures drives the cash index up and the futures down,
which NARROWS the spread, returning it to fair value.
Not exact matches
The
spread between short - term and long - term Treasuries has
narrowed,
which could hurt lending profits.
But a continuation of favorable economic growth and low default levels —
which we expect — and measured Federal Reserve tightening —
which we also expect — should support more
narrow high - yield bond
spreads for some time to come.
This reduces your risk of being picked off by trading with informed traders,
which lets you make a profit even on much
narrower spreads.
Second, the higher number of shares outstanding can result in greater liquidity for the stock,
which facilitates trading and may
narrow the bid - ask
spread.
But the situation is hardly at an extreme —
spreads have risen from their lows in January,
which was the
narrowest in four years.
Since her marriage to Edward Swift, three years after the sudden death of her first husband Horace Torrington, Charlotte had changed her position at the breakfast table in order to accommodate her new husband's needs: specifically, aiding him in the
spreading of toast and cutting of meat, owing to his having suffered the loss of his left arm at the age of twenty - three in an unfortunate encounter with the
narrow wheels of a speeding gig, out of
which he had fallen on the driveway of his then home in County Wicklow.
It reveals how the outlook for U.S. home values has shifted over time (from Q1 2010 to Q1 2016), and the degree to
which the
spread between the most optimistic and most pessimistic quartiles of experts
narrowed during that timeframe.
The actual «cost» of a bid / ask
spread is reflected in the distance between actual fill and initial stop...
which is wider or
narrower in true value relative to the width of
spread.
Credit
spreads can continue to
narrow (supported by U.S. tax reform,
which might result in more limited high yield and investment grade supply), but we don't anticipate a repeat of the Great
Narrowing of 2017.
You would not compare that measurement with the mean height of Dutch people or even the confidence interval on that mean (
which gets vanishingly
narrow with a large sample size), you would compare it with the overall
spread of the height distribution in that country: the prediction interval.
The width of the distribution of Outlooks remains
narrower for the second month in a row compared to last year: the interquartile
spread across all types of contributions is 0.5 million square kilometers,
which is a decrease by about 60 % since last year.
As far as I can tell it is based on the estimate of the mean trend (the C.I. of
which narrows with the number of runs), not on the
spread of trends per se.
The overall width of the distribution of Outlooks has
narrowed compared to last year: the interquartile
spread across all types of contributions is 0.53 million square kilometers,
which is a decrease of 0.27 million square kilometers since last year.
Those pixels are
spread out across that vast field of view, however,
which means there isn't as much detail per degree as in cameras with a
narrower lens.
The
spread narrowing was even more pronounced for the riskier tranches of the two transactions,
which moved in to swaps plus 125 basis points.