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Bond traders: exhausted new stars of financial markets
Three years of crisis in the euro zonehave thrust the once-sleepy government debt market into the public spotlight and transformed the way bonds are viewed, valued and traded.
“We’re no longer seen as second class citizens when compared to credit. We’re as much at the forefront of helping clients successfully navigate one of the toughest markets in a generation,” said Carl Norrey, head of rates securities at JP Morgan in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, who oversees the bank’s government bond trading.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/14/us-markets-bonds-traders-idUSBRE89D03S20121014