Interest rates

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

There’s so much spare cash sloshing around U.S. funding markets that investors are choosing to park almost half a trillion dollars at the central bank — earning absolutely nothing.

About 500 of Raymond James' workforce will be cut because of a decline in earnings due to low interest rates and the pandemic-induced economic downturn.

The housing and transportation sectors had the biggest declines in municipal bond volume.

Members of the economic research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco take a look at the relationship between the effective lower bound interest rates and inflation.

Recovery seen next year, but rates stay low.

Spoiler alert: Not much. What makes a May Friday a relative oddity is that it was just the first time in 2020 the 30-year UST ended the day unchanged, the second longest span of continuous yield activity since the U.S. government began benchmarking maturities in the late 1970s.

Federal Open Market Committee members have been adamant that negative rates would be a last resort.

The Fed says it has more ammunition; experts define what those bullets are.

Fed chair warns recovery may not be quick or easy.

Inflation, low before the coronavirus shut the economy, drops further.

Atlanta Fed president said the Fed is keeping "all tools on the table" and could discuss negative rates.

Economists also expect the Fed's balance sheet to more than $10 trillion as policymakers look to lift the country from a recession brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

It feels like we have stepped into a new virtual reality in the municipal market. Things are not what they appear to be any more.

Vallejo, California, benefited from last week's record-low municipal market rates when it finally sold its water revenue bond refunding.

Investors should be aware that a lower coupon rate could become illiquid if interest rates rise, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board said.

Despite tax-exempts being expensive, strong technicals are likely to extend into February.

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association survey indicates low interest rates will keep the environment for issuing debt favorable.

After what one analyst called the muni market's "most eventful" decade, investors are expected to be greeted by continued heavy volume in 2020.

Looking back on the last decade makes one realize that we have come a long way.