Spread

1.

Two-way price quotations

Bid-offer spread.

2.

Borrowing and investment

The differential between the yields on two fixed-income securities, usually expressed in basis points.

3.

Statistics

In statistics, spread is the extent to which data are clustered centrally, or more widely dispersed.

Measured for example by Standard deviation, Variance or Mean deviation.

See also

• Basis point
• Bid-offer spread
• Mean deviation
• Skewness
• Standard deviation
• Variance
• Yield