The volatile Wall Street market has sparked vast losses at major banks and has also exposed the trillion-dollar trade in mortgage-backed securities, corporate and municipal bonds and other complex securities. Mounting losses on mortgage securities have affected other complex debt instruments and deepened a credit crunch that has reverberated around the world. The secretive nature of a market where trades occur between banks rather than on an open exchange appears to have scared off buyers in the current uncertain climate.

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