Dan Seymour

Anyone studying the path of yields on double-A or triple-A rated municipal bonds over time might want to put a little asterisk next to April 2010.

Fitch Ratings is considering slashing its rating on Beebe Medical Center in Lewes, Del., after a former staff pediatrician at the hospital was indicted on charges of rape and sexual exploitation.

Many of the biggest institutions that own municipal bonds beefed up their holdings last year as state and local government debt became something of a preferred asset.

Investors once again entrusted money to municipal bond mutual funds last week after briefly withdrawing money for the first time in well over a year.

Municipal closed-end funds continue to surge to new peaks despite the specter of higher interest rates threatening to throw a wet blanket on all the fun.

Mitchell Savader traveled to Philadelphia yesterday to deliver a reality check. Numerous newspapers and magazines, including Barron's and the New York Times, have run eye-popping headlines in the past few weeks.

Last week, investors did something they have not done in well more than a year: withdrew more money from municipal bond mutual funds than they put in.

Fitch Ratings lifted its rating on more than 38,000 municipal bond issues yesterday under a systematic overhaul of the way it assigns grades to the credit quality of state and local governments.

State and local governments pulled in their biggest-ever tax haul in the fourth quarter as they leaned on property tax collections to help recoup shortfalls in other types of revenue.

State Street Global Advisors hired Nuveen Investments to manage a suite of five municipal bond exchange-traded funds — plus a series of new funds the company expects to launch in the coming months.

When Build America Bonds hit the market a year ago, Eaton Vance did not have to do much homework before launching its mutual fund devoted to the new product.

If anyone understands the value of getting people’s attention, it’s Jim Lebenthal.

The pace of cash flowing into municipal bond mutual funds fell off a cliff last week.

Fitch Ratings will raise its credit rating on nearly every state and most cities under an overhaul of its municipal credit-evaluation system next month.

Toll-road bond investors can stop panicking over high gasoline prices.

The flow of cash into municipal bond mutual funds slowed down another notch last week.

Joseph Darcy’s first task upon becoming manager of the Hartford High-Yield Municipal Bond Fund this year: resisting temptation.

The unwinding of the Federal Reserve's liquidity programs is unlikely to boost the sickly yields on tax-free money market funds, participants say.

Charles Schwab Corp. has partnered with Pacific Investment Management Co. to offer wealthy clients in or approaching retirement a managed municipal bond laddering product.

Is the river of cash flooding municipal bond mutual funds slowing down? It ­depends how one interprets the ­numbers.