James Ramage

Extremely light retail participation and large gains in tax-exempts characterize the municipal market around lunchtime.

The municipal market once again played the wallflower Tuesday, riveted as equities and Treasuries performed a dramatic dance.

NEW YORK — The municipal market once again played the wallflower during Tuesday’s quiet trading session, standing riveted as equities and Treasuries performed a dramatic dance.

The municipal market is slowly going through the motions Tuesday while Standard & Poor’s stirs the pot with its recent credit ratings assessments and downgrades.

Munis more or less dodged a rating-agency bullet. Investors expected Standard & Poor’s to slap municipalities by the hundreds with downgrades to their respective credit ratings, following its move Friday to downgrade the credit rating of the U.S.

Municipal market yields remained unbowed after Standard & Poor’s decision Friday to downgrade the credit rating of the United States.

NEW YORK — Yields showed that the municipal market was largely unimpressed with Standard & Poor’s decision over the weekend to downgrade the credit rating of the United States.

Caution reigns in the municipal market Monday amid the fallout of the Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the United States’ credit rating. The market awaits the rating agency’s assessment of muni securities closely tied to federal government spending.

Uncertainty and light new issuance highlight a patient municipal market Monday morning.

The municipal market on Friday followed up one of the wildest days of the year with stable yields and surprisingly active trading.

NEW YORK — The municipal market on Friday followed up one of the wildest days of the year with stable yields and surprisingly active trading.

NEW YORK — The municipal market tentatively advanced into Friday afternoon, as though waiting for someone to step up and prove the levels its reached.

NEW YORK — The municipal market started Friday slightly hung over, marked by light trading and steady yields.

After showing mostly inflows over a period of several weeks, municipal bond funds saw the largest outflows since the week of April 20. And this past week’s results — $861 million in outflows — suggested numbers and a pace that harken back to the 29 straight weeks between mid-November and early June when muni funds hemorrhaged money.

The municipal market Thursday saw heavy trading activity amid rapidly sinking yields and attractive values to Treasuries.

NEW YORK — The municipal market Thursday saw relatively heavy trading activity amid rapidly sinking yields and attractive values to Treasuries.

NEW YORK — Light issuance has helped the municipal market rally carry into Thursday afternoon, while Treasury yields continue to dive ever deeper.

NEW YORK — The municipal market started out strong in the secondary Thursday, following on the heels of a day of incredible gains.

Both Treasury and municipal yields rallied in impressive fashion on a day that saw a resolution to the budget and debt-ceiling battle that many thought had raged for far too long.

NEW YORK — Both Treasury and Municipal yields rallied in impressive fashion on a day that saw a resolution to the budget and debt-ceiling battle that many thought had raged for far too long.