11.   Bonds received a lift from the record corporate offering as securities firms that underwrote the corporate debt bought back Treasuries they had sold as a hedge against losses.

12.   A glut of new corporate debt also weighed on the market.

13.   A recent increase of new corporate debt issuance and a rise in commodity prices also hurt prices, analysts said.

14.   A N.Y. Times News Service article on Wednesday about trading in the credit market misidentified the lead underwriter for a corporate debt issue by Aegon N.V.

15.   A rally in U.S. Treasury bonds late last week pushed yields on government bonds, a benchmark for pricing corporate debt, to a five-week low.

16.   A. Interest rates are lower, but the amount of corporate debt is much higher.

17.   Aboyan said that the bank plans to apply for the power to underwrite corporate debt and equity in the early part of next year.

18.   Acquisitions and investments should be funded with long-term bonds, not short-term corporate debt or bank loans, they said.

19.   All Indonesian corporate debt also has a junk rating.

20.   Brazil abandoned a plan to swap billions of dollars of corporate debt for less risky securities supported by the government, because investors shunned the transaction.