1.   As demand for Optical shares surged, market makers widened their spread between the bid and ask prices for buying and selling the stock.

2.   At issue is whether market makers are deliberately widening the spread between bids to buy Nasdaq stocks and the asking price.

3.   Banking companies benefited from the steepening of the yield curve, which widens the spread between their lending and their borrowing.

4.   Ericsson has won some of the most lucrative contracts in Europe to build the next generation of networks that are expected to widen the spread of the wireless Internet.

5.   German bonds rose, widening the spread between bund and U.S. Treasury yields, after press reports said German joblessness rose more than forecast in November.

6.   Low interest rates boost bank profitability by widening the spread between loan and deposit rates.

7.   Low interest rates boost bank profitibility by widening the spread between what they must pay depositors and what they earn on lending.

8.   Low rates boost bonds by widening the spread between what investors such as commercial banks pay to raise funds and what they can earn on bonds.

9.   Sarabia Blanco says his next step is to have a look at his investment portfolio with a view to widening the spread of his investments across Europe.

10.   That would widen spreads again by allowing short term rates to fall further.