arbitrageur
noun
Examples of arbitrageur in a Sentence
Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 7 May 2023
In just a few years, SBF went from an arbitrageur in a niche market to one of the most powerful people in crypto.
—Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2022
Whereas the old school model for the manager of an electrical utility might have been Homer Simpson, now the model is closer to Gordon Gekko – a Wall Street arbitrageur that needs to make split-second decisions about how to supply consumer demand most efficiently.
—Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 17 June 2021
Most infamously, Milken and Dennis Levine, Black’s colleague on the mergers and acquisitions desk, went to prison for insider trading, as did their co-conspirator, the arbitrageur Ivan Boesky.
—Bob Ivry, Town & Country, 3 June 2021
But there is a straightforward way to minimize the discount: Make the holding company as similar to the underlying asset as possible so that arbitrageurs can directly compare them.
—Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 24 June 2019
An arbitrageur could profit by selling short the stocks in New York and buying the futures contract.
—Burton G. Malkiel, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2017
Levine implicated Ivan Boesky, an arbitrageur, who then implicated Martin Siegel (HBS ’71), formerly of Kidder Peabody but then working for Drexel Burnham Lambert.
—Duff McDonald, Newsweek, 6 Apr. 2017
Stewart’s book brought the reader inside the room of the most private meetings and discussions among the likes of the famed arbitrageur Ivan Boesky and the financier Michael Milken, as well as those prosecuting them, led by Rudy Giuliani.
—Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2017
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Word History
arbitrage + -eur (as in entrepreneur) or -er entry 2
Note: Despite appearances, arbitrageur is not borrowed from French, which uses the derivative arbitragiste.
1870, in the meaning defined above
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