Word: breakdowns
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Trading wasn't always smooth after the bond market reopened Thursday. A communications breakdown with the Bank of New York, one of the main banks that process Treasury-bond trades, at one point delayed settlement of transactions worth at least $400 billion. By Friday, the bank insisted that "virtually all" problems had been solved, though a government official disputes that. At week's end the yield on the 10-year T-bond, which many mortgage rates are based on, stood at 4.55%, nearly a percentage point lower than it was four months...
Since the beginning of the recent violence in 2000, many voices in the Arab world have criticized the U.S. for taking Israel’s side in laying blame for the breakdown of the Camp David peace talks. Since taking office, Bush has distanced himself from the conflict, in sharp contrast to the hands-on attitude of the Clinton administration...
...regimes. Soldiers from Arab armies fought side-by-side with the U.S. to expel Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait. And it was that consensus that also laid the basis for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. But the ongoing U.S.-led sanctions and periodic bombing of Iraq, and the breakdown of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, has frayed the Gulf War consensus...
...breakdown at BONY, which along with J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. processes roughly 90% of the $1 trillion or more in daily U.S. treasury and government backed debt transactions, has also been the focus of scrutiny and conference calls involving staff from the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the top leadership of BONY...
...unfortunate incident, a little breakdown,” said senior goalkeeper Dan Mejias, who was in the net when Yale scored its first goal. “It made us focus a little bit harder, made us regroup and get the job done...