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  • Yields Narrowly Mixed in 'Bifurcated Week’

    The Bond Buyer’s weekly yield indexes were narrowly mixed, with some dipping to 43-year lows while others increased.

  • Unit Investment Trusts Become Top BAB Vehicle

    The unit investment trust has quietly blossomed into the dominant investing vehicle for Build America Bonds — the taxable municipal debt created under last year’s stimulus legislation. [FREE]

  • Tax-Free Money Market Funds Slip $2.84B

    Tax-free money market funds continued to seesaw during the week ending Aug. 30, declining $2.84 billion to $337.91 billion in total assets on the heels of nearly $600 million the previous week, according to the Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.

  • Once-Cheap CEFs Continue High-End Transformation

    If there’s a day of reckoning on the horizon for municipal closed-end funds, the market hasn’t spotted it as investors continue to fork over a premium for the trusts.

  • BlackRock Rakes In $1B for BAB CEF

    BlackRock has raised more than $1 billion for a closed-end fund devoted to Build America Bonds, creating the largest public vehicle offering investors exposure to the new class of taxable municipal debt.

  • Mutual Funds Nab $728.4 Million

    Municipal bond mutual funds reported another healthy slug of new money last week as demand for high-quality fixed income continued to drive investment flows. [FREE]

  • Supply Drops by Half Ahead of Shortened Calendar

    Investors clamoring for new supply will be faced with slim pickings this week when long-term volume in the tax-exempt market sinks to an estimated $2.61 billion — less than half of last week’s total — as trading and underwriting begins to wind down ahead of Labor Day, according to Ipreo LLC and The Bond Buyer.

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