JP Morgan top Q4 2008 overall corp bond underwriter

Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:15am EST

 Dec 29 (Reuters) - Thomson Reuters Fixed Income Data/EJV on
Monday released the following table of the top Q4 2008 U.S.
underwriters of overall corporate bonds. The table includes
investment grade and high-yield corporate bonds issued in the
U.S.:
Q4 2008 OVERALL CORP BONDS BOOKRUNNERS

                            Volume      # of       PERCENT
Rank  Bookrunner           (in U.S. dlrs)  Issues   MARKET
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1    JP Morgan            11,090,575,235     52         16
2    Citi                  8,473,003,012     37         12
3    Bank of America       8,100,783,065     39         12
4    Goldman Sachs & Co    7,042,578,851     28         10
5    Barclays Bank Plc     5,631,656,595     23          8
6    Deutsche Bank         5,559,925,419     27          8
7    Morgan Stanley        5,113,027,407     25          7
8    Credit Suisse         4,209,511,863     19          6
9    Royal Bank Scotland   3,712,571,149     23          5
10    Merrill Lynch & Co    2,955,455,550      6          4
11    UBS AG                2,340,484,357     13          3
12    HSBC Banking Group    1,731,948,050      6          2
13    Mizuho Financial Group  865,709,917      6          1
14    Bank of Nova Scotia     730,288,702     10          1
15    Wachovia Securities     657,584,083      4          1
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2008 OVERALL CORP BONDS BOOKRUNNERS
1    JP Morgan            98,725,154,312    354         15
2    Citi                 91,547,661,218    275         14
3    Bank of America      77,380,833,903    279         12
4    Barclays Bank Plc    66,935,422,627    241         10
5    Morgan Stanley       53,335,271,862    177          8
6    Goldman Sachs & Co   51,698,832,232    174          8
7    Merrill Lynch & Co   48,429,984,400    146          7
8    Credit Suisse        34,608,419,704    127          5
9    Deutsche Bank        31,707,974,400    137          5
10    Wachovia Securities  26,817,469,492    103          4
11    UBS AG               21,189,728,381    101          3
12    Royal Bank Scotland  20,627,149,607    109          3
13    HSBC Banking Group   12,669,599,337     50          2
14    BNP Paribas           8,348,022,085     43          1
15    RBC Capital Markets   2,035,962,841     16          0
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Source: Thomson Reuters Fixed Income Data/EJV
League tables are compiled from Thomson Reuters comprehensive
fixed income database, EJV. Bond criteria for the tables are
established and published in cooperation with bond
underwriters. Sovereign and emerging market high-yield bonds
are excluded from the tables. All underlying data are made
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