In government bond trading, the yield on the 10-year note was unchanged at 2.12 percent.
Last month Nomura announced it was looking into setting up a junk bond trading desk.
Even so, the potential for electronic bond trading may be less than in equities, futures and options.
Unlike its rival E-Trade, it sidestepped the housing crisis by avoiding risky mortgages and sticking with stock-and-bond trading.
But making bond trading transparent is easier said than done, as recent events in Canada have made clear.
Bond trading was halted by noon Eastern time on a recommendation from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.
Morgan Stanley posted weaker first-quarter results as revenue from bond trading slid, but the investment bank exceeded Wall Street expectations.
In government bond trading, the yield on the 10-year note was unchanged at 1.63 percent, matching its low for the year.
My job was to effect hedge positions for the government bond trading desk, the currency trading desk and the OTC derivatives desk.
"Expectations of bank support now are getting priced into the market, " said the head of European sovereign-bond trading at a global bank.
The company provides an electronic market for U.S. Treasury bond trading.
But bond trading provides only a small part of total profits.
In government bond trading, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 1.70 percent from 1.71 percent late Friday as traders shifted money into lower-risk assets.
But other embattled chief executives, including James Cayne of Bear Stearns and Charles Prince of Citigroup, have survived, for now, despite big shake-ups in their firms' bond trading divisions.
Patterns of bond trading in the City clearly show that investors believe that the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank will achieve its target of a 2.5% inflation rate.
In 2007 HSBC in Panama was told that Salvatore Frieri Gallo was doing illegal bond trading and money laundering in Venezuela and that HSBC in Switzerland had given Frieri ECG bank statement.
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"Several clients have moved to the sidelines until the tape bombs and path ahead in Europe is crystallized, " said Scott Graham, managing director and head of government bond trading at BMO Capital Markets in Chicago.
Bond trading made the situation seem dire, although it may well have been affected by investors fleeing the stock and commodities markets and parking their cash in short-term Treasury securities, fearing to trust banks in light of the current economic turmoil.
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But other embattled chief executives, including James Cayne of Bear Stearns (nyse: BSC - news - people ) and Charles Prince of Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ), have survived, for now, despite big shake-ups in their firms' bond trading divisions.
He was in charge of fixed-income trading at Salomon at the time of a bond-trading scandal in 1991, in which traders under Meriwether made false bids in an effort to manipulate the market in two-year notes.
He added Greenwich Capital, a bond-trading outfit, and Gartmore, an asset-management firm, the following year.
That year the firm suffered big bond-trading losses that landed it in the red for one quarter.
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They ads, which feature nine surviving Cantor employees, do not mention the firm's eSpeed electronic bond-trading software.
While little comprehensive European government bond-trading data is publicly available, one measure shows liquidity is in steep decline.
But the last time he ran an investment bank (Kidder, Peabody), he presided over a disastrous bond-trading scandal.
Online brokerages are only now starting to offer bond-trading services on their sites.
NWM's corporate-lending and bond-trading businesses, ousting NatWest's old guard at the same time.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra), a self-regulator for the broader securities industry, also has an online bond-trading database.
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