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 muni market is eagerly awaiting the $1.4 billion Delta deal to kick off the week's activity.
April 23 -
Some say cheapness on the short end of the municipal yield curve is starting to boost investor demand.
April 19 -
Morgan Stanley priced $575 million of airport system bonds for Sacramento County.
April 19 -
Deals from Connecticut and Ohio issuers arrived as some buyside participants complained of low volume and inactivity in the muni market.
April 18 -
Two big education deals are slated to hit the market on Wednesday, with deals coming from issuers in Connecticut and Ohio.
April 18 -
California came to market with a $2.15 billion general obligation bond deal as JPMorgan priced the big taxable offering
April 17 -
The municipal market is seeing several new deals hit the screens ahead of the big taxable deal from California.
April 17 -
California’s $2.2 billion taxable sale is in the spotlight as the market gets set for a $7.5 billion supply slate.
April 13 -
The imbalance of supply and demand continues to crimp activity for some municipal bond professionals.
April 12 -
Municipal bonds remained stronger as a high-grade deal from Charlotte, N.C., came to market.
April 12 -
The old saw that rising rates are bad for bonds may not really be the case, one new report says.
April 10 -
Despite the previous technical difficulties of supply and demand, municipals are poised for a potentially stronger second quarter, according to Jeffrey Lipton, managing director of credit research at Oppenheimer & Co.
April 10 -
Traders and muni professionals said it was a typical light Monday in the municipal market — with favorable market technicals mixed with some underlying concern on the political front.
April 9 -
Weekly municipal market volume is expected to sink back below $5 billion in the coming week, making it harder for investors to price bonds.
April 6 -
Traders noted some caution in the muni market ahead of Friday’s release of the March unemployment report.
April 5 -
Municipals were trading in sympathy with Treasuries on Thursday morning as the market remained quiet as it prepared for the week’s end.
April 5 -
BlackRock's Peter Hayes says that municipal bond performance in the first quarter was clearly hurt by tax reform.
April 4 -
Buyers of municipal bonds had a variety of new issues to choose from on Wednesday as deals from New Jersey, New York, California and Maryland all came to market.
April 4 -
Despite municipals being a little sidetracked as Treasuries weakened, traders said there was a more constructive nature overall to the market on Tuesday.
April 3 -
Retail buyers were offered the chance to buy the New Jersey Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp.’s subordinate tobacco settlement bonds.
April 3
