COMMENT Just before 1pm on Thursday, eastern standard time, anxious dealers will gather on New York trading floors to determine their final bids for the most talked-about bond sale in years.
Armed with the distilled wisdom of clients, traders and strategists, they will key their bids into a secure system. Less than two minutes later, the screens will reveal how they have fared in the first 30-year US government bond issue since 2001.
