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RBC Capital Markets' high-yield salesmen and traders moved last week from its Greenwich, Conn., office to New York.

The National Association of Securities Dealers will take a closer look at issuing best execution guidelines for bond trading because reports of several instances of alleged fair price fraud indicate more guidance is needed.

This chart, provided by Citigroup Global Markets, tracks bid-ask prices for par credit facilities that trade in the secondary market.

Claudio Phillips, senior managing director at The Seaport Group, discusses opportunities in Latin America, working for Habitat for Humanity and what makes a trader.

High-yield spreads have kicked off the New Year by widening and market participants are expressing concern the nearly two-and-a-half year Bull Run in junk bonds is coming to an end.

Insight Investment in London is focusing its junk investments on single- and double-Bs with a view to including them in its mixed investment-grade and high-yield corporate bond portfolios.

A total of nearly $400 million of Mirant Corp. and Mirant Americas Generation (MAGI) bank debt traded last week after Mirant filed its long-awaited reorganization plan.

--Paul Gifford, portfolio manager of $1 billion in investment-grade fixed-income at First Source Investment Advisors, on why he maintains a 20% overweight to mortgage-backed securities and an underweight to agency debentures.

Leeds & Holbeck Building Society, a U.K. thrift, is considering adding an equity growth product to its range of investments.

Amrith Ravi recently joined Wachovia's fund structured product group in New York from the Royal Bank of Canada alternative assets group.

ABN AMRO will launch a range of hybrid products this month linked to rates, foreign exchange, credit, commodities and inflation.