Analysts covering the commercial mortgage-backed securities market are cautiously optimistic, predicting continued volume growth and better performance of CMBS in 2012, although at a much slower pace compared to the past two years. CMBS investors will tend to be cautious this year because of continuing economic uncertainty worldwide, particularly the European debt crisis, and a tougher debt market that may reduce liquidity, analysts said. The CMBS market has not yet fully recovered from its almost total collapse in 2009 as a result of the financial crisis. Although recovery began in 2010, issuance remains...