market-maker Definition In English

Examples of market-maker

• Market-makers use the bid-ask spread to recoup this loss from uninformed traders, who have private reasons for trading, for example, because of liquidity needs.

• Trades negotiated by market-makers usually bear standard terms.

• The crisis has renewed debate regarding the duty of financial intermediaries or market-makers such as investment banks to their clients.

• Market-makers can see the total amount of index trading daily and where they rank against their peer group.

• I read in the press recently that at least one of the regulatory bodies will try to reduce disclosure requirements in order to protect market-makers.

• If market-makers cannot operate with full disclosure of price and quantities, they ought not to be in the business of market-making.

• Heading (b) is concerned with occasional market-makers.

• Many influential market-makers believe that that is inevitable.