Bond Trading Near Normal, but TBA Quotes Volatile

Treasury and agency bonds had resumed relatively normal trading Thursday, but quotes for to-be-announced mortgage-backed securities were "all over the place" and users were having trouble obtaining quotes from some computer systems, according to bond market participants. The participants said Cantor Fitzgerald -- which was located on the upper floors of the World Trade Center and has been working hard to locate employees and restore operations -- was responsible for a lot of the real-time quotes they received. Market participants also reported that dealers have been swamped with calls, many of them inquiries related to the World Trade Center catastrophe.