Markets

Low yields continue to do little to deter investors from stuffing more cash into municipal bond mutual funds.

A municipal bond market starved for a hearty batch of tax-exempt paper is not going to get it this week.

CHICAGO — There is cautious optimism for the nonprofit health care sector as operating performance and debt-market access show improvement after two years of financial turmoil.

Tax-free money market funds caught a small breather last week with their smallest outflow in a month.

Nearly all of The Bond Buyer’s weekly yield indexes fell during the seven-day period ending Thursday as firmness persisted in the municipal market.

Natalie Cohen has become the latest new hire in the burgeoning market for high-profile municipal research analysts.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Environmental sustainability. That was the main factor driving the California-based nonprofit RSF Social Finance to invest through its customized fixed-income portfolio in a municipal bond deal from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection in March.

Special assessment and tax-increment financing bonds from regions prone to property bubbles and busts are most vulnerable to the continuing weakness of the commercial real estate market, according to a Fitch Ratings report released Tuesday.