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MUNICIPAL BONDS

Municipal (muni) bonds are a popular investment, particularly for those in high tax brackets since interest income is usually exempt from state and federal income tax. Will the credit crisis will lead to a spike in defaults in this long-stable debt market? This topic stays on top of the rapid changes sweeping the market for debt issued cities or other local governments, or their agencies.

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Fed Policy, U.S. Bond Market, Economic Outlookmore

Ira Jersey, an interest-rate strategist at Credit Suisse Group AG, and Leo Hindery, managing director at InterMedia...

Ten Trillion and Countingmore

The US has a significant fiscal deficit and sovereign debt problem, this documentary simply lays out the issues and...

Jefferson County Bankruptcy Should Be Dismissed, BNY Mellon, Creditors...more

Alabama’s Jefferson County issued warrants not bonds, creditors want case to be dismissed.

Volatile Bond Trading Sees Market Whipsaw, Oil nears $100more

During London trading hours bond prices were pushing higher towards resistance at 143 on widening credit spreads...

Shanghai Cuts Rates in Nation’s First Muni Bondsmore

Shanghai may cut its borrowing costs by almost two percentage points as China allows local governments to sell bonds...

Fresno’s Debt Downgraded Three Levels by Moody’smore

Fresno, California’s fifth-most- populous city, had $477 million of debt downgraded from Aa2 to A2 by Moody’s.

Super-Downgraded Bonds Defying Default Attract Wells Capitalmore

Wells Capital Management is among investors buying bonds of localities whose credit ratings have been cut more than two...

Bonn’s Prostitute Taxmore

Why is Europe so diverse in its attitudes towards selling sex and is it time the continent relaxed its attitudes...

S&P Drags Cities Into the Brave New Worldmore

By Mark Bergen – Shortly after Standard & Poor’s knocked down the national credit ratings, news arrived that the...

U.S. Debt Downgraded, Now What?more

Investing - What Happened to the Muni Bond Blowupmore

Turn the clock back to late 2010, and all the talk in the investment community was about potential Armageddon in the...

China and Europe’s Debtmore

As China announces its readiness to buy up Eurobonds to help Eurozone countries, what are the motivations for this...

DoNotBuyMarylandBonds.com Launched by Investor Advocatemore

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Investor advocate and public finance watchdog Kevin Olson has launched...

FT.com / Comment / Analysis - Investment: Exchange-traded fundsmore

Regulators fret that their rapid rise poses risks to the system

Inviting Chaos: The Perils of Toying With the Debt Ceilingmore

This may interest you* | G7Finance.com - Finance News & Personal F...more

A FRIEND of mine was recently told by his boss that his position at work was "unassailable": in British...

Attraction of munis drops for investorsmore

market volatility. Investors could expect steady returns of 4 percent to 5 percent a year. The appeal of muni bonds is...

The art of Kwame Brown���s dealmore

By delaying a $21 million budgetary maneuver and leaning on a $13.4 million proposal to tax non-District-issued...

America's Richest Living Veteransmore

9 billion and pocketed approximately $380 million. The fortune of the former presidential candidate is now mostly in...

Markets Start to Weigh Impact of More Fed Interventionmore

re in a slow patch and mired in a trading range now." Lamkin likes intermediate- and long-term municipal bonds as...

DC move to tax out-of-state bonds may face rocky timemore

The Washington, D.C., City Council is creating a budget that would include taxing the interest paid on municipal bonds...

Business Wire and The Bond Buyer to Bring Greater Transparency to the ...more

nation's fiscally strained states and local governments. Individual investors, who directly hold more than $1 trillion...

Liquidity - The Muni Risk That Meredith Didn't Mentionmore

up 4.20% since her December 19th "60 Minutes" appearance.�� I continue to assert that high quality municipal...

D.C. Council passes budget with no income tax hikemore

Vincent C. Gray (D). Browns plan would replace much of the income tax revenue with a tax on municipal bonds not issued...

Stone & Youngberg Asset Management Group Comments on Elevated Fina...more

Stone & Youngberg, a leading financial services firm and the nation's top underwriter of California and Arizona...

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