Cruising Toward Blowout Week.

The article presents an update on the securities markets in the U.S. as of November 2009. It cites firms that arranged for selling risky junk bonds on November 10, including Clearwire Corp. According to Dealogic, over 9.7 billion dollars in dollar-denominated corporate bonds were acquired by investors on November 9. Based on the High Yield Master II index, average spreads, or risk premiums, on junk bonds over risk-free Treasurys declined to 7.57 percentage points on November 9, compared with 7.60 points on November 6.