Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Taiwan's Central Bank Probes Bond Traders After Yields Lag Behind Key Rate

(Bloomberg) -- Taiwan's central bank confirmed it investigated bond trading companies on suspicion of price manipulation, pushing up 10-year yields by the most in a year.

``Yesterday, we inspected several bond traders to see if any abnormal transactions occurred,'' Alan Chiu, deputy director- general of the bank's examination department, said in an interview in Taipei today. ``Government bond yields failed to follow the central bank's policy in raising rates. We feel the yields have been twisted.''


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