More SGX steps to boost market liquidity

Singapore

SINCE early October, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) has been pushing out more initiatives to engage brokers to "give them a reason to start calling their clients", Chan Kum Kong, vice-president of securities, told reporters on Wednesday.

This comes amid a quiet market with liquidity at a multi-year low.

For one thing, SGX is starting to avail tradability and order book statistics to them. These contain in-depth information on bid-ask spreads and market depth for various stocks.

SGX will also provide them a price impact cost analysis, which measures the change in trade price between the time an investor decides to perform a trade and the time the trade…