arbitrage

IPA: ˈɑrbɪtrɑʒ

(finance) A market activity in which a security, commodity, currency or other tradable item is bought in one market and sold simultaneously in another, in order to profit from price differences between the markets.
(archaic) Arbitration.

Examples of "arbitrage" in Sentences

So why do you think pay-per-click arbitrage is going to do it for you?
Global labor arbitrage is hard at work narrowing the international wage gap among educated workers.
Even more amazing was that out of those 261 investments, 59 of them were identified as arbitrage deals.
Arbitrage tools: The term arbitrage is defined as a riskless transaction for the purposes of our due diligence.
At the same time it asserts that there will not actually be any opportunity to engage in arbitrage because markets are efficient.
SAFE said that not all the hot money in its estimates was for short-term arbitrage or represented illegal inflows, meaning money meant to evade controls or limits.
Pat: I mean smaller markets which are charged different prices and between which arbitrage is banned. i.e. there is a USA price, a Canada price, a Russia price, and a Zimbabwe price (decreasing in that order).
In a forthcoming article in the Yale Journal on Regulation, Levitin argues that regulatory arbitrage is inevitable in current financial regulatory system that features multiple regulators for essentially equivalent institutions: financial institutions will seek out the most permissive regulator, and regulators have incentives to engage in laxer regulation to attract regulatees.