Sentence examples for narrow the spread from inspiring English sources

The broker may seek to narrow the spread between the bid and ask quotations or he may approach another jobber handling the same issue and undertake the same bargaining process.

SecondMarket's negotiators help narrow the spread.

Because the risk arbitragers who would normally get on both sides of the transaction and narrow the spread have been frustrated because of difficulty in borrowing Berkshire stock for their short sales.

The estimation methods such as simple kriging and ordinary kriging tend to eliminate the extreme values observed in the sample data, and narrow the spread of the data distribution.

The narrower the spread, the better the deal.

The yield on Greek 10-year debt fell to 6.3 percent, narrowing the spread with the benchmark German Bund.

The key measure for credit investors is the spread (excess interest rate) over government bonds; the narrower the spread, the less protection the investor is getting against default.

And with the decision of the Canadian court, other hedge funds appear to have closed out their positions in Telus, further narrowing the spread between the share classes.

In the aftermath of that move, Arthur Levitt, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, exulted that competition was narrowing the spread between bid and asked prices for listed options.

If the move had gone ahead it would have narrowed the spread for dual listed companies like Rio and BHP Billiton, 30.5p lower at 1991.5p.5p

I have found that the more polls there are of a state, the narrower the spread between them — in a way that is inconsistent with normal statistical variance.