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The third quarter kicks off on Tuesday with municipal issuance expected to decline from last week, helping to keep supply and demand in balance.

Build America Mutual Assurance Co., the start-up mutual municipal bond insurer, is open for business in Florida.

The tax-exempt market posted its third consecutive week of gains as yields fell as much as nine basis points on municipal bonds.

The internet and laws fostering transparency have resulted in an environment where a plethora of information about municipal bonds is available.

Muni bond mutual fund outflows shrank to the least since late May, an indication that investor demand is trickling back to the marketplace.

The Bond Buyer's weekly yield indexes declined the week ended Sept. 26

Tax-exempt money market funds lost cash for a second straight week as $2.27 billion exited the industry and total net assets declined to $263.74 billion in the week ended Sept. 23, according to The Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.

Unfunded pensions for government employees are a growing burden for municipalities across the nation, Moody's Investors Service said in a report Thursday.

Investortools has joined with Kalotay Analytics to give its municipal bond portfolio-manager clients a more accurate gauge to find prices as interest rates change.

The municipal bond industry’s total assets fell by $7.5 billion in the second quarter of 2013 to $3.721 trillion, while households reduced their ownership of tax-exempt securities by $15.5 billion to $1.647 trillion, according to the flow of funds data as of June 30 released today by the Federal Reserve Board.