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.
-
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 -
The second-quarter kicked off Monday with a little more optimism among municipal market participants after "one of the worst quarters in a long, long time."
April 2 -
The influx of volume may give the boost that's needed to jump-start the primary market.
March 29 -
After more than three decades in the research and portfolio management trenches, Nguyen will head municipal credit and professional services at Triangle Park.
March 29 -
The municipal market was winding up the week on a tentative note as Connecticut offered its general obligations to institutional investors.
March 28 -
Municipal bond buyers were getting a piece of Connecticut's general obligation bond deal on Wednesday.
March 28 -
Municipal traders said the market was slightly firmer on Tuesday, though a lack of new supply was still curtailing opportunity for investors.
March 27 -
The municipal market rallied to close out Thursday five basis points lower in yield, while the last two larger deals of the week priced, with the Philly School District passing its test with flying colors.
March 22 -
The municipal market saw the last two notable deals price, as the market was stronger by as many as five basis points.
March 22 -
Primary and secondary activities were an afterthought Wednesday as the municipal market focused on the interest rate announcement from the Federal Reserve Board.
March 21 -
The municipal market concentrated on a Federal Reserve Board 25 basis-point interest rate hike, while keeping an eye on falling snow.
March 21
