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The municipal bond market remains very well bid, with torrid and unrelenting demand from retail and other clients supporting both low nominal yields and tight credit spreads, in particular within...
Dirt bonds, or bonds that are used to build water and power lines as well as roads in newly developing communities are showing some of the highest default levels in the municipal bond category. The...
Many investors who traditionally invested in municipal bonds are instead buying Treasuries as the yield spread between the two investments moves closer together.
It's already been written on the site but I wanted to reiterate thie deal. Washington Mutual, which was just purcased by JP Morgan Chase, is offering a 12 month CD for 5%. Opening the CD with...
BestCashCow's Lynne Ashminov interviews Tom Doe from Municipal Market Advisors on Build America Bonds. What are they and do they present an opportunity for the individual investor?
Bank of America is offering a promo for some of the professional organizations listed on the site - i.e. The Society of Mechanical Engineers - but they are open to everyone. When I contacted Bank...
Proposed legislation from Republican Senator Judd Gregg, and Democratic Senator Ron Wyden includes a provision that would end the tax deferral on savings bond income.
Scarcity of well-rated, tax-exempt bonds continues to support very low nominal yields on municipal bonds, with an assist last week from a stronger Treasury market. Throughout the crisis, municipals...
Yields on Treasury notes and bonds rose on Friday as investors reacted to better than expected employment figures. The rise in yields dropped bond prices. But as the charts below show, the moves...
The tremors of the housing market and credit credit crisis hit another type of investment this week, the auction rate security market. The Wall Street Journal and several other business magazines...
Once again, tax-exempt municipal bonds outperformed the Treasury market last week, although this may have been due to inattention during a holiday-shortened trading schedule and the large East...
The State Bank of India has upped the ante in the rate game and has bucked the trend of recent rate decreases. It now has the top 6 month and 12 month certificate of deposit (CD) rate.
California's financial paralysis and its deteriorating fiscal condition is not something that is widely reported. Still, investors hold tens of biillions of its bonds and the state has the fifth...