"This factor, coupled with the drying up of secondary market liquidity, has brought an early close to the covered bond market for 2008 and may continue into [the first quarter of] 2009."
--Rob Robinson, of Merrill Lynch's covered bond team, on the impact of government-backed unsecured debt on the covered bond market.
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