Arbitrageur: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Arbitrageur

  • a firm or individual who purchases stock or financial securities to make a windfall profit

Wiktionary Definition for: Arbitrageur

  • One who engages in arbitrage.

Additional Resources

Asset Mispricing, Arbitrage, and Volatility
This article builds on an important and insightful recent model of arbitrage by professional traders who need but lack wealth of their own to trade Professional arbitrageurs must convince wealthy but uninformed investors to entrust them with investment capital in order to exploit mispricing and push the market back toward...
Tags: Volatility, Asset, Financial Services, Federal Reserve Bank Of St. Louis, Arbitrage, Trader
White papers 2002-11-01
Limits of Arbitrage: Theory and Evidence From the Mortgage-Backed Securities Market
"Limits of Arbitrage" theories require that the marginal investor in a particular asset market be a specialized arbitrageur. The paper examines the mortgage-backed securities market in this light, as casual empiricism suggests that investors in the MBS market do seem to be very specialized. It shows that risks that seem...
Tags: Financial Services, Northwestern University, Arbitrage, Theory
White papers 2004-01-22
Trading Gold for Silver
David Morgan submits: In economics and finance, arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of a price differential between two or more markets: striking a combination of matching deals that capitalize upon the imbalance, the profit being the difference between the market prices. When used by academics, an arbitrage is...
Tags: Gold & Precious Metals, IShares Silver Trust
External links 2008-08-28
Bank of America Takeover Ends Merrill's Independence
By Jonathan Stempel and Elinor Comlay NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Bank of America's BAC $50 billion (28 billion pound) acquisition of Merrill Lynch MER would mark the end of a storied name in American finance, but create the nation's biggest bank by far. Investors soured...
Tags: Bank, Bank Of America Corp., Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., American International Group Inc., Bank of America Corp., BlackRock Inc., Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Morgan Stanley
News items 2008-09-15
Bank of America Takeover to End Independent Merrill
By Jonathan Stempel and Elinor Comlay NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp's BAC $50 billion acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co MER would mark the end of a storied name in American finance, but create the nation's biggest bank by far....
Tags: Bank, Bank Of America Corp., Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., American International Group Inc., Bank of America Corp., BlackRock Inc., Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Morgan Stanley
News items 2008-09-15
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