bid-ask spread

bid-ask spread definition - finance
The difference between a bid and an ask price. The bid is what a trader or market maker is willing to pay to buy a stock or other investment and the ask price is what the trader is willing to sell it for.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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