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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Without the benefit of a larger new-issue calendar, secondary trading is likely to continue the theme of the final two months of 2020: more bidders than bonds.
January 5 -
Washington Bureau Chief Kyle Glazier discusses what is in store for munis in 2021, how the SEC and MSRB will function under a Biden administration and what Janet Yellen in the Treasury seat might mean. (12 minutes)
December 24 -
Solomon's new role will combine his current responsibilities in the FICC Municipal platform overseeing data strategy/algorithmic trading and municipal opportunity trading units, with the bond sales, trading and underwriting teams.
December 21 -
Paltry supply will force the secondary to handle the rest of 2020; New York City taxable general obligation bonds trade up by nearly 20 basis points on intermediate bonds.
December 18 -
The entire municipal exempt yield curve is seeing consolidation with a 125 basis point spread between one and 30 years, and sub-1% yields are holding firm inside of 15 years.
December 17 -
ICI reported another $2.3 billion of inflows, new deals continue the march to lower yields and benchmarks rose a basis point seven years and out for the first time since the beginning of December.
December 16 -
The state of Illinois sold $2 billion of three-year notes to the Federal Reserve's Municipal Liquidity Facility at 3.42%.
December 15 -
Even with COVID-19-related shutdowns — a New York City lockdown may be imminent — issuers are pricing bonds into an extremely low-rate environment.
December 14 -
Munis firmed Friday, only the second time in December they weren't flat, and more than a few participants are waiting on yields to rise before getting involved, particularly given the rich muni/treasury ratios and low absolute yields.
December 11 -
Bid list volume is trending higher into the end of the year, but its share as measured against overall high demand does not pose much of a threat, analysts say. Refinitiv Lipper reports $992 million of inflows.
December 10
