Lynne Funk is Senior Director, Strategy and Content, Live Media - Municipal Finance. She leads and shapes The Bond Buyer's six major events, serving as host, moderator, thought leader and brand ambassador. Lynne also is charged with creating innovative live media formats, including new conferences, virtual summits and podcasts to help serve our municipal finance community. Lynne has nearly two decades of experience in the public finance industry. She was most recently Executive Editor of The Bond Buyer. Previously, she was a director at Municipal Market Analytics, Inc., and in the Policy and Public Advocacy for the Municipal Securities Division at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.
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While most observers expect inflation to grow as the economy heals, the latest CPI numbers suggest that it hasn't yet arrived.
February 10 -
Even if there was some hesitation in the past few sessions to accept lower municipal yields given rich valuations, municipals continue grinding lower. One- and two-year AAA yields hit record lows of 0.06% and 0.08%, respectively.
February 9 -
Why has inflation remained low and how will the economic recovery impact it? Several experts offer their views as to whether inflation is or will be a problem.
February 8 -
KBRA said the development, weighting, and ranking of the key factors in ESG scores are endeavors best left to investors rather than to rating agency credit analysts.
February 8 -
The January employment report headline number disappointed while stimulus news lifted equities and U.S. Treasuries rose on both counts. Municipals ignored those moves ahead of another week of less-than-ample supply.
February 5 -
No rate hikes in sight as employment continues to struggle and inflation should rise this year, but not enough to force the Fed to raise rates.
February 4 -
Lumesis' president, COO and co-founder Tim Stevens talks about how AI complements the company’s pricing and scales software to predict the shape of a deal-specific municipal yield curve based on the structural and credit-characteristics and to use that predicted shape to fill-in portions of a yield curve that cannot be built from traditional means. Lynne Funk hosts. (35 minutes).
February 4 -
ICI reports a third week of $3-plus billion of inflows. Couponing is becoming as much a factor in inquiry as credit and issuers move to lower coupons in both competitive and negotiated deals.
February 3 -
Rich ratios focus buyers' eyes on a primary market that simply doesn't have enough supply to keep up with demand.
February 2 -
High-yield continues to be sought after as high-grade paper is yielding about 0.70% in 10 years and 1.40% or lower in 30 years and credit spreads continue to tighten in nearly every sector. Ratios are near 20-year record lows.
February 1
