June 27 (Reuters) - Reuters Fixed Income Data/EJV on Friday released the
following tables of the top Q2 2008 and H1 2008 U.S. underwriters of
investment-grade corporate bonds:
Q2 2008 INVESTMENT-GRADE BOOKRUNNERS

Volume # of
Rank Bookrunner (in U.S. dlrs) Issues
1 Citi 44,287,740,958 102
2 JP Morgan 37,681,981,075 116
3 Bank of America 34,935,440,958 89
4 Merrill Lynch 28,682,980,950 72
5 Morgan Stanley 26,075,761,617 71
6 Lehman Brothers 19,699,391,805 50
7 Goldman Sachs 18,450,141,292 64
8 Deutsche Bank 16,352,890,908 54
9 Credit Suisse 14,120,342,333 35
10 Wachovia Securities 12,059,126,700 39
11 Barclays Bank Plc 11,148,492,155 52
12 UBS AG 9,955,452,300 38
13 RBS 8,657,457,875 44
14 HSBC Securities 6,131,371,583 18
15 BNP Paribas 3,372,869,430 19
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H1 2008 INVESTMENT-GRADE BOOKRUNNERS

Volume # of
Rank Bookrunner (in U.S. dlrs) Issues
1 Citi 70,248,915,650 187
2 JP Morgan 68,511,888,242 208
3 Bank of America 53,744,105,567 150
4 Merrill Lynch 40,387,365,392 109
5 Morgan Stanley 39,869,855,017 112
6 Lehman Brothers 37,560,471,263 94
7 Goldman Sachs 36,697,053,383 108
8 Deutsche Bank 22,850,903,600 88
9 Wachovia Securities 22,785,477,908 69
10 Credit Suisse 21,109,274,542 65
11 Barclays Bank Plc 17,206,477,947 83
12 UBS AG 14,153,785,967 66
13 RBS 12,791,096,667 68
14 HSBC Securities 8,748,437,583 32
15 BNP Paribas 3,860,057,763 22
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Source: Reuters Fixed Income Data/EJV
*League tables are compiled from Reuters comprehensive fixed income database,
EJV. Bond criteria for the tables are established and published in cooperation
with bond underwriters. Bonds of sovereign and supranational issuers are
excluded from the tables. All underlying data are made available to bond
underwriters to ensure market transparency.
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