$33 20 $33.10 $33.00 $32.90 $32 80 $32.70 $3260 $32 50 $3240 9:59 30 9.59:40 9 59:50 10:00:00 10:00:10 10:00 20 10:00 30 10:00:40 10:00:50 10:01:00 bid ---ask ... trade At 10 am there were four announcements: Actual Consensus $5.20 $5.19 73.2 73.1 SPQ's quarterly EPS Consumer confidence Unemployment rate SPO's quarterly revenues per share 8.8% 8.9% $230 $200 (a) Which announcement is most likely be causing the rise in the stock price? (6) Discuss the bids, asks, and trades: which features are typical, which are unusual? Maximum number of characters (including HTML tags added by text editor): 32,000 Show RichText Editor and character count