LONDON (Reuters) - Following are five big themes likely to dominate thinking of investors and traders in the coming week and the Reuters stories related to them. 1/ LET'S CALL IT A YEAR Six weeks to go to year-end and there are already signs that liquidity in stressed parts of financial markets is drying up. Whether this is due to markets starting to seize up for certain assets, such as some peripheral euro zone sovereign debt, or a desire among banks and speculators to book any profits early, the result is likely to be increased volatility in the weeks ahead. Bid/offer yield spreads on Irish government bonds have widened, reflecting a lack of willing buyers other than the European Central Bank and thus feeding into record wide sovereign spreads over euro zone benchmarks. The risk is that flows will be increasingly dictated by these liquidity considerations rather than fundamental factors and moves could be exacerbated by the banks' year-end book-balancing. 2/ SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECIES Sovereign...
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