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RISK ARBITRAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does risk arbitrage mean?
• RISK ARBITRAGE (noun)
The noun RISK ARBITRAGE has 1 sense:
1. arbitrage involving risk; as in the simultaneous purchase of stock in a target company and sale of stock in its potential acquirer; if the takeover fails the arbitrageur may lose a great deal of money
Familiarity information: RISK ARBITRAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Arbitrage involving risk; as in the simultaneous purchase of stock in a target company and sale of stock in its potential acquirer; if the takeover fails the arbitrageur may lose a great deal of money
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
risk arbitrage; takeover arbitrage
Hypernyms ("risk arbitrage" is a kind of...):
arbitrage (a kind of hedged investment meant to capture slight differences in price; when there is a difference in the price of something on two different markets the arbitrageur simultaneously buys at the lower price and sells at the higher price)
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