Municipal Market Activity - Dealer - Dealer Trading (September 11-13, 2001)

As we have noted in press releases today and yesterday, we have been unable to complete processing of information related to trades between dealers due to communications problems with New York City.  We have now been able to determine for trades between dealers the total number of trades, total par value of trades, and the total number of different issues traded on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (September 11-13, 2001).

These statistics are as follows:

Tuesday, September 11

            Total trades               45

            Total par value            $4,029,000

            Total issues               42

Wednesday, September 12

            Total trades               22

            Total par value            $2,823,000

            Total issues               19

Thursday, September 13

            Total trades               577

            Total par value            $163,220,000

            Total issues               409

Please see our previous release, available on our website at www.msrb.org, for the trading activity between customers and dealers.

September 14, 2001