Goldman Readies Low-Cost Bond Platform

NEW YORK, May 4 (IFR) - Goldman Sachs is set to launch

LONDON (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs may extend its new bond trading platform to cover other fixed income products such as credit derivatives after it starts trading corporate bonds this month, sources close to the firm said on Friday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs may extend its new bond trading platform to cover other fixed income products such as credit derivatives after it starts trading corporate bonds this month, sources close to the firm said on Friday. The New York-based investment bank plans to launch in the coming weeks an electronic bond trading system called GSessions. But a source close to the firm said on Friday the bank may extend the system's coverage to other asset classes, specifically credit default swaps (CDS), in a later version. "Credit derivatives could be applicable. ...

Goldman Sachs launched new electronic bond trading platform, as part of the investment bank’s efforts to restore liquidity in the corporate debt market and keep customers

NEW YORK, May 4 (IFR) - Goldman Sachs is set to launch by end-May or even as early as next week a single-dealer electronic corporate and high-yield bond trading platform called GSessions.

By Tom Lydon: Vanguard Group has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch two international bond funds early next year with matching exchange traded fund share classes.

George Spritzer submits: One of the best investment areas over the last few months has been municipal bond closed-end funds. There are several reasons for this:

Dan Pritch submits: Evidently, there’s a race to the bottom in trading commissions seeing as how there are new discount brokers popping up with various free/low-fee commissions and now, multiple large names are offering trading on ETFs they manage or have relationships with absolutely free.