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Yeah thanks a spreadbet is a better way of putting it. I was wondering if there is any mechanism to lock in the spread for a period, for example if you were to enter a repo on the German debt and a reverse repo on the Italian. Probably demonstrating my flawed understanding of repo but...

Agree, thanks, arb with hindsight is not the right word.

Hi, I’m seeing a lot being made of the bund to peripheral spread in eurozone. 90bps spread between German and Italian. Is there an arb here? Short bund, long Italy? How would institutional investors take advantage of this in practice? Pretty novice question I suspect but any insight would be...