Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Emerging-market credit-default swaps trading fell 30 percent to $274 billion in the third quarter from a year earlier, EMTA said.

Developing-nation debt trading dropped 10 percent to $1.8 trillion in the quarter, according to a survey by the association for emerging-market debt trading and investment.

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