In a quote-driven market, bid-ask spread is composed of order processing costs, stock holding costs and asymmetric information cost.

在报价驱动交易机制下，买卖价差由指令处理成本、存货成本和非对称信息成本构成。

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Most companies will decide that the cost of holding more stock and diversifying supplies outweighs the potential cost of greater insecurity of supply.

大多数公司都会认定，增持库存与增加供应商的成本，超出了供应不安全性加大的潜在成本。

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A single stock future is an investment with higher leverage because the cost of futures contract is enough to maintain the holding of stocks at the beginning.

由于最初只需期货合约的成本便可控制持股，故单一股票期货是一种杠杆率更高的股票投资方式。

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Whenever the main index of the Taiwan Stock Exchange nears 6200--widely seen as the average holding cost for government-backed funds that entered the market last year--local investors try to get out before the government-related investors begin to sell.

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