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A pair of deals, one several billion dollars and one nearly a billion, will share the spotlight in the primary market this week as an estimated $11.4 billion in total new-issue volume is expected, according to The Bond Buyer and Ipreo LLC. The mammoth offerings will almost double last week's volume, which was revised to $6.6 billion, according to Thomson Reuters.
June 8 -
Cash flowed out of tax-free money market funds for the second week in a row, declining by a whopping $3.36 billion and settling at $465.66 billion in total assets for the week ending June 1, according to the Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com of Westborough, Mass.
June 5 -
Nearly all The Bond Buyer’s weekly yield indexes rose this week as tax-exempts weakened in almost all the week’s sessions.
June 5 -
In a universe of more than 260 closed-end municipal bond funds, Thomas J. Herzfeld likes one. The rest he is selling.
June 5 -
Money continues to flow into municipal bond mutual funds at a record-setting rate as investors become more comfortable exiting ironclad, short-term safe havens.
June 1 -
Investors flush with June 1 coupon and maturity payments looking to reinvest these proceeds at the height of spring reinvestment season this week will be met with a wide selection of new issues.
June 1 -
The most important bonds in California right now are the ones that haven’t been issued yet — and may never be.
May 29 -
Nearly all The Bond Buyer’s weekly yield indexes rose this week, reflecting sustained weakness in the municipal market, despite the one-year note index declining to an all-time low.
May 29 -
After a short-lived period of inflows, tax-free money market funds declined by $124.8 million for the week ending May 25, and settled at $469.02 billion in total assets — after two prior weeks of positive cash-flow activity, according to the Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com of Westborough, Mass.
May 29 -
The "newness" premium on Build America Bonds has thinned.
May 28
