Finance: Commission forecast

(Shanghai Daily)
Updated: 2006-10-25 14:46

Commission income at China's stock brokerages may more than double this year from last year as equity exchange trading surged in the third quarter, the official Shanghai Securities News reported, citing a research note jointly by the newspaper and Guotai Junan Securities Co.

Brokerages' commissions may surge to between 25 billion yuan (US$3.2 billion) and 28 billion yuan this year, said the newspaper, an affiliate of the state news agency Xinhua.

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