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ARBITRAGE SPATIAL [1 record]

Record 1 2010-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • Stock Exchange
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
DEF

The process of buying a currency at the location where it is priced cheap and immediately selling it at another location where it is priced higher.

CONT

Also known as spatial arbitrage or locational arbitrage, two-point arbitrage arises when the exchange rate between two currencies assumes two different values in two financial centres at the same time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Bourse
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
DEF

Opération qui consiste à comparer les cours d'une ou de plusieurs mêmes valeurs sur différents marchés et à opérer ensuite des transactions à l'achat et (ou) à la vente de façon à profiter au mieux des différences de cours.

CONT

L'arbitrage dans l'espace intervient lorsque les investisseurs identifient une différence de prix pour des actifs identiques sur deux places financières différentes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inversiones
  • Bolsa de valores
  • Política monetaria y mercado de cambios
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