arcane

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The first winner is likely to be British chip designer Arm Holdings, which has only a fraction of its stock public, but had its weight limited by arcane rules about its ADRs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

If the value of a fund’s purchased loans is inflated by an arcane accounting rule, investors may suffer significant losses when these loans become due.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

Social media is awash in content about the arcane: how-tos for spellcasting, psychics claiming to foretell the future and endless posts about casting out demons.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2026

The problem, apart from perennial budget pressures, is that interest in election mechanics — a technical and arcane subject if ever there was one — is episodic and fleeting.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026

Some huge percentage of the increase—more than half, certainly, but exactly how much more than half they declined to tell Eisman—flowed from the arcane end of the home finance sector, known as structured finance.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis