The broken bond between the two men shows how the government's insider-trading investigation is attempting to splinter the tight-knit circles of traders that share illegal investment data, prosecutors allege, in an environment where friendship is key.

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Well, the panic was not broken: Bond prices sank immediately to 50 cents on the dollar, to where they were before the IMF's package.

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No amount of money or assurances about risk freely assumed can change the fact that, in this moment, an essential bond had been broken.

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On Thursday, Mr Panetta thanked Mr Karzai for visiting US and Afghan wounded at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington, saying the two countries had "created a bond that will not be broken in the future" after fighting side by side.

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Bond Offshore Helicopters said one of the winchmen involved played a key role despite sustaining a broken bone in his foot.

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Chart Analysis: The weekly chart of the T-Bond futures shows that the uptrend from the 2011 lows, line a, has been broken over the past three weeks.

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