Boosting liquidity: fundamental rethink needed
SGX could reconsider its removal of the cap on clearing fee; some observers believe that longer trading hours are counter-productive
IT WOULD not be an exaggeration to describe conditions in the local stock market as extremely dire, possibly the worst they have been since the US sub-prime crash of 2008. The Straits Times Index is down 15 per cent for the year, which is bad enough, but perhaps more troubling is the steep drop in liquidity with daily averages now regularly below S$1 billion, the bulk of this being generated by trading in the 30 index components.
Speak to brokers and the message is clear - these are desperate times for the industry. There is …
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