UPDATE 1-Ex-Jefferies trader's U.S. fraud trial nears end
January 13, 2017 at 13:29 PM EST
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan 13 (Reuters) - A former Jefferies Group bond trader being tried a second time on charges of defrauding clients about prices of mortgage bonds should be convicted because he lied repeatedly to his own customers to boost profits, a U.S. prosecutor argued on Friday.