Last Tuesday was a memorable day on Wall Street for many reasons, but it was the half-hour stretch starting at about 2 p.m. Chicago time that everybody was talking about. That`s when the Dow Jones ...

In financial markets, price gaps between an index and the stocks can create unique opportunities. Index arbitrage is one of those strategies that traders use to spot and act on these gaps. It is an ...

The huge influx of assets to index funds in the late 1990s and early 2000s was one of the reasons that made Dexia Asset Management’s Index Arbitrage hedge fund possible. The fund works on the premise ...

The New York Stock Exchange voted Thursday to restrict the most prevalent form of computerized program trading, index arbitrage, if the Dow Jones industrial average moves more than 50 points from the ...

When it comes to mergers and acquisitions (M&A), 2025 has seen the most activity and some of the strongest returns since the ...

Neil O’Hara has 28+ years of experience in the financial services sector. He is the author of The Fundamentals of Municipal Bonds. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The New York Stock Exchange on Thursday set new trading collars, which are limits on index arbitrage. As of October 1, 2004, the collars kick in when the Dow Jones Industrial ...

IndexIQ, the ETF issuer behind the first hedge fund ETFs, has brought its fifth exchange-traded product to market, the IQ ARB Merger Arbitrage ETF. The fund began trading Tuesday on the NYSE Arca ...

Asia Index, a joint venture between S&P Dow Jones Indices and BSE, has launched arbitrage rate index. The S&P BSE Arbitrage Rate Index will equally weigh long positions in the Sensex and equivalent ...