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market arbitrage

 
 
noun [U] FINANCE

Definition

the activity of buying and selling the same currencies, bonds, shares, etc. at the same time in two different markets to take advantage of a price difference between them: I was involved with financial market arbitrage for a number of years.
(Definition of market arbitrage noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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