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A new website that targets mom-and-pop investors of municipal bonds and promises to streamline their investing experience on the Web is set to launch this week.
March 7 -
S&P proposed a new rating methodology for local governments. The chief changes would be to increase the emphasis on numerical sub-ratings, formalize the role of a state's institutional framework, introduce weighting measures to emphasize the factors, and to formalize a flow pattern for the rating process.
March 6
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The municipal market's calendar doesn't appear to be slowing down this week.
March 2 -
After a short-lived period of inflows, tax-exempt money market funds lost $1.93 billion and total net assets dipped to $288.75 billion in the week ended Feb. 27, according to the Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.
March 1 -
The municipal market traded sideways over much of the past week in the face of a large influx of new supply and hefty muni bond fund flows.
March 1
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A spectre that periodically haunts the municipal bond market looms once again: the threat to alter the market's sacrosanct tax-exempt status.
February 24
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The largest bond deal so far in 2012 will lead the way on the heftiest calendar yet this year.
February 24 -
The municipal market has had a mixed week of rising yields and noticeable demand for new supply.
February 23
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Municipal bond mutual funds had another week of strong inflows amid the market's risk-on trade this past holiday-shortened week.
February 23 -
Tax-exempt money market funds recouped about half of last week’s losses when they added $1.2 billion of new cash and total net assets inched up to $290.69 billion in the week ended Feb. 20, according to the Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.
February 23 -
When Samuel A. Ramirez took his first job out of high school on Wall Street, he never imagined that it would turn into a 40-year career in the investment banking industry and that he would create one of the largest minority-owned securities boutiques in the country.
February 21
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A government report that describes how institutional investors pay less than individual investors when buying or selling municipal bonds isn't news to market participants.
February 17
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As last week's largest deals showed, the municipal bond market is ready to absorb more issuance.
February 17 -
Individual investors don't have it easy when it comes to knowing what their bonds are worth in the secondary market at any given time.
February 17 -
Even without the tailwinds of a strong rally, the municipal market coasted through a solid week, held aloft by falling yields and supply that was well-received.
February 16
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Tax-exempt money market funds continued on their erratic pace as $2.44 billion exited the funds and total net assets dipped to $289.48 billion in the week ending Feb. 13, according to the Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.
February 16 -
New-issue volume is slowly starting to ratchet upward.
February 10 -
When it comes to municipal bonds with longer maturities, most institutional investors still regard 5% coupons as the structure of choice.
February 9
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The municipal bond market is poised to close out a rather slack week.
February 9
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In a reversal from the past three weeks, tax-exempt money market funds ushered in February on a positive note as they gained $1.65 billion and settled with $291.92 billion in the week ending Feb. 6, according to the Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.
February 9
