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New bond indexes say market size isn't everything

Reuters: Financial Services and Real Estate

Thu, 9 Feb 2012

NEW YORK, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Europe's debt crisis and last year's credit rating downgrades for the United States and Japan were wake-up calls for anyone who assumed the biggest, most well-known bond...

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