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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Investors began lining up for the New York City Transitional Finance Authority’s nearly $1 billion building aid revenue bond offering on Friday.
July 13 -
Ipreo estimates weekly bond volume at $9.2 billion, consisting of $7.5 billion of negotiated deals and $1.7 billion of competitive sales.
July 13 -
Munis finished mixed as California State, Los Angeles Airport and L.A. County Facilities Inc. hit the market.
July 12 -
Municipals were mixed at mid-session as the last of the week’s big deals came to market, led by a bond offering out of California and a note sale from Colorado.
July 12 -
Requests for municipal bond identifiers rose in June for the fourth month in a row as the Dormitory Authority of New York sold $1.79 billion of bonds to a supply-starved market.
July 11 -
Municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session as a swell of supply swept into the market on Wednesday.
July 11 -
Isabella led trading operations at Shearson American Express and Banc One Capital Markets.
July 10 -
BlackRock says relative valuations and historical seasonal trends suggest favorable conditions for municipals.
July 10 -
While munis turned in a mostly solid performance on Monday, a Charles Schwab & Co. report said they are less likely to outperform Treasurys in the second half.
July 9 -
Munis were firm at mid-session as traders get set to see some much-anticipated supply hit the screens this week.
July 9 -
Municipal bond activity returns to a near-normal level as a slew of deals heads into the market, led by New York and California issuers.
July 6 -
Municipals remained stronger into the close on Thursday as the minutes from the last Federal Reserve meeting were released.
July 5 -
A sluggish and somewhat skittish tone kicked off the post-July 4th trading on Thursday.
July 5 -
Muni finished stronger Tuesday in an abbreviated trading session. Markets are closed Wednesday and trading will resume on Thursday.
July 3 -
Three rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court this term will have a lasting impact on the finances of many municipal bond issuers, Fiera Capital says.
July 2 -
Municipal volume isn't expected to meet growing demand in the remainder of 2018.
July 2 -
The municipal market will see only $74 million of deals in a holiday-shortened week, raising demand for supply the week after.
June 29 -
Ipreo estimates weekly bond volume at $73.8 million, consisting only of competitive sales and no negotiated deals.
June 29 -
Municipal market activity remained quiet Thursday afternoon wrapping up a week in which investors snapped up some large new issues.
June 28 -
New York paper continued to be in high demand in front of the July 1 redemption date, according to a market source.
June 28
