US corporate bond inventory at US broker dealers is now at nine-year lows as the Volcker Rule and Basle III requirements loom. Inventories of US corporate bonds with more than one year to maturity are ...

"Dealers are carrying most of the load, but balance sheets are getting stretched, forcing a tradeoff between holding low-yielding paper or letting inventory continue to build," said James Pruskowski, ...

Bond market participants are fast realizing that the answer to the problem of diminished ability to turn over positions is not so much new trading protocols – because, aside from a few government ...