A second mitigant of underlying
pressures on trading costs is the growing use of electronic trading in bond markets.
First, reduced market - making supply and increased demand imply upward
pressure on trading costs, reduced secondary market liquidity, and potentially higher financing costs in new - issue markets.
Not exact matches
Since then, commodities
trading has come under
pressure at big banks as funding
costs have risen and regulators have clamped
on their ability to make bets with their own money.
However, Edward Hertzman, a sourcing agent based in New York who also publishes
trade magazine Sourcing Journal, said
pressure from U.S. retailers to keep a lid
on costs continues to foster unsafe conditions.
The huge pool of low -
cost labour that this has brought into play has put sustained downward
pressure on a wide range of prices of internationally
traded goods.
But market - making practices are clearly evolving, putting upward
pressure on bid - ask spreads and
trading costs, and causing activity to concentrate in the most liquid instruments and move away from the less liquid ones.
Labour
cost pressures also remain firm in the construction sector; a recent survey by the Master Builders Association suggests that labour shortages remain most acute in
trades exposed to the latter stages of the building process, contributing to ongoing
pressure on rates for subcontractors.
Over time, the stronger global environment could also generate further upward
pressure on commodity prices and hence manufacturing
costs, and
on traded goods prices more generally.
«I'm sure if the Australian
trading environment was much more buoyant, there wouldn't be the
pressure on the whole supply chain to improve its
cost to improve its service offering,» he said
Commenting
on today's announcement by the Office of Fair
Trading (OFT) of a call for evidence into the
cost of motor insurance, Otto Thoresen, the ABI's Director General, said: «This will give the industry another opportunity to highlight the
cost pressures motor insurers are facing, what action is needed to reduce them, and steps the industry is taking to ensure customers get the best deal when buying motor insurance.
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An industry
trade association representing community banks expressed concern that creditors may collude
on prices with settlement service providers because the proposal creates
pressure to disclose accurate
cost estimates, and such collision would ultimately harm consumers.