To maintain the functioning of the market, firms called market makers quote both bid and ask prices. The difference between the bid and ask prices is called the spread. A high spread suggests that ...

Market makers quote two prices for any given stock at any given time. Their bid is the price they are willing to pay for a share of a particular stock, and their ask is the price at which they are ...

Liquidity on NOM is provided by market makers as well as other participants and is both order and quote based. NOM is a traditional maker/taker exchange offering rebates for posting and fees for ...

That shouldn’t be surprising, as primary exchanges also need to compete for company listings, and companies compare them based on things that reduce their costs of capital, such as consistent quotes ...