Emerging debt-Bonds fall as global credit jitters mount

(Reuters) - Overall emerging market returns fell 0.30 percent,
reversing Thursday's 0.23 percent gain, according to JP
Morgan's Emerging Markets Bond Plus Index .




Emerging bond spreads over U.S. Treasuries widened 7 points
to near a four-month high of 180 basis points, as investors
worldwide turned their back on credits with a taint of risk.


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Emerging debt trade up 4 pct 1Q to record $1.7 trillion

(Reuters) - "The rise of first quarter 2007 volume shows the ongoing
appetite for Emerging Markets debt," said David Spegel, Global
Head of Emerging Markets Strategy at ING Financial Markets LLC,
quoted in the report.




Local instrument trading accounted for $1.025 trillion, or
60 percent of the reported turnover, a 30 percent rise from
same quarter last year.


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