Christine Albano is a reporter in the Investor’s & Investing beat, which she has covered for the past two decades. She has a wide range of buy side sources in the municipal market and has covered trends affecting retail investors, institutions, municipal mutual funds, tax-exempt money market funds, and the high-yield beat. She has also written about some of the industry’s biggest issues, such as historic defaults in Orange County, Calif., Puerto Rico, and Jefferson County, Ala., as well as the collapse of the variable-rate demand market. In addition, she reported on the subsequent 2008 financial crisis, and the death of municipal bond pioneer Jim Lebenthal. She provided next day coverage of the impact on the municipal bond market of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, and recently interviewed The Vanguard Group Inc. founder, former chief executive officer, and investment guru John C. Bogle about the best investing advice for the municipal market.
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The N.Y. Metropolitan Transportation Authority sold over $1 billion of securities Thursday as munis ended stronger.
January 31 -
Panelists at The Bond Buyer's National Outlook Conference said state and local governments are on their own, at least for now, to fund infrastructure.
January 29 -
Municipals finished little changed on Monday in quiet activity.
January 28 -
Topics range from policy changes, regulatory developments, and pensions to interest rates, technology, and market opportunities.
January 24 -
Nearly a year after retiring from public finance, Hamel will share commentary on infrastructure and public policy on MMA's independent platform
January 23 -
A trader said lack of follow-through on long new issues continued to plague the market as the weekly calendar shrank to $5B of issuance.
January 18 -
The primary municipal market chugged along on Wednesday, as the two biggest deals of the week priced.
January 16 -
Buyer sentiment barely budged as new issuance flooded the muni market on Tuesday.
January 15 -
New deals were rolling in, with timing benefiting issuers as the market firmed.
January 15 -
The municipal bond market will see a plethora of deals hit screens for both institutions and retail, as sellers look for a change in buyer psychology from last week.
January 14 -
The municipal bond market and its participants are ready for what they are hoping is a busier and better week than the last.
January 14 -
After a lackluster week, the muni market is hoping to get back on track.
January 11 -
Municipals were mostly stronger Friday ahead of next week’s $6.4 billion new issue calendar.
January 11 -
Bond buyers gave the $1.65 billion San Francisco airport deal a mixed reception on Thursday as municipal bonds were mostly stronger.
January 10 -
New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority was able to increase the size of its deal by half.
January 9 -
Strategists sang the praises of munis Tuesday as New York and Massachusetts led a pack of new issues into the market.
January 8 -
The holidays are over and the muni bond market gets set to go back to work.
January 4 -
Municipals were slightly weaker Friday in sympathy with Treasuries following a robust jobs report.
January 4 -
Investor worries about volatility in the stock market helped keep alive the muni rally on Thursday.
January 3 -
Analysts say lessons from the events of 2018 can forecast what lies ahead in 2019.
January 2
