Fixed income

This Fixed-Income Pricing and Valuation (FIPV) Division will use BDA resources to represent professionals who price and value securities portfolios.

For 35 weeks in a row, investors have put cash into municipal bond funds as Refinitiv Lipper reported $603 million of inflows while high-yield funds eked out a gain of slightly more than $1 million.

The Treasury Department, for the first time in more than five years, will likely unveil a scaling down of its behemoth quarterly sale of longer-term securities.

Without the primary in play and a mostly muted secondary, triple-A yield curves were little changed, coming nowhere near the moves in UST with the 10- and 30-year falling five and six basis points as equities saw their worst day since May.

Geithner and colleagues including five former central bank heads released a raft of recommendations to bolster the resilience of the market for Treasuries.

How the pandemic is accelerating trends in financial advice and changing the way Americans manage their money.

The U.S. Treasury kept its quarterly auction of long-term debt, planned for next week, at a record size to help fund the government’s continuing wave of stimulus spending.

The lineup of exclusively short-duration fixed-income products, taxable and municipal, still managed an overall gain.

Municipal bonds have a direct effect on the social and cultural character of cities, metropolitan areas, counties, and states. Munis and the initiatives they support such as public education, housing subsidies, public transit systems, and more, can often be linked to local or regional politics. Join Lynne Funk, Executive Editor at The Bond Buyer and Destin Jenkins, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago as they explore how municipal bond mismanagement can have contrasting influences on the different ethnic groups in our cities.

The top 20 performers nearly doubled the gains of their peers over the period.