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Trading buffeted by hurricanes

6 September 2011

The secondary cat bond market provided high liquidity to jittery investors before Hurricane Irene struck the US, which market observers welcomed as a healthy sign as the wind season geared up.

The Swiss Re cat bond price index, which tracks market prices for US dollar-denominated bonds, fell 1.9 percent over the last week of August as Hurricane Irene swept through the Caribbean.

The index reached a 2011 low of 91.53 on 26 August but quickly made up most of the...

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