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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.

Municipal Bonds is part of Business Exchange, suggested by Suzanne Woolley. This topic contains 1,358 news and 2,882 blog items. Read updated news, blogs, and resources about Municipal Bonds. Find user-submitted articles and reactions on Municipal Bonds from like-minded professionals.

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SSgA Rolls Out High Yield Muni Bond ETFmore

The SPDR Nuveen S&P High Yield Municipal Bond ETF is designed to give investors access to high yield municipal...

2 Key Strategies to Boost Your Retirement Savingsmore

part, the Society of Actuaries offered the following ways to manage public policy risk: It suggest investing in...

The Rise of the HINTs���High Income, No Taxesmore

Tom Herman notes four ways to become a HINT. Losses from partnerships or S Corps, income from nontaxable municipal...

Muni-bond investors can't count on cities for financial informationmore

professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and MuniNetGuide, a research firm specializing in public finance...

Ways to boost retirement savings: Powellmore

part, the Society of Actuaries offered the following ways to manage public policy risk: It suggest investing in...

4 Strategies for Nervous Muni Investorsmore

over the federal deficit, though, increasing the prospect of rising interest rates and escalated budget cuts.

Why Forecasting the Muni Market Is Basically Impossiblemore

after four weeks of falling prices and rising yields, according to The Bond Buyer newspaper. Similarly, outflows in...

New Delay at Ground Zeromore

1.8-million-square-foot Tower 4. In December, they shelved a bond sale in a bet that interest rates on municipal bonds...

The Rise of the HINTs-High Income, No Taxesmore

Tom Herman notes four ways to become a HINT. Losses from partnerships or S Corps, income from nontaxable municipal...

Bonding With ETFsmore

fixed-income holdings?focusing on investment-grade government and corporate issues. Since 2007, however, ETFs have...

Fitch Affirms Preferred Share Ratings of 2 Nuveen New York Municipal C...more

income tax. Under normal circumstances, NRK invests at least 80% of its managed assets in a portfolio of municipal...

Should You Insure Your Muni Bonds?more

This month, bond insurer Assured Guaranty Municipal began offering insurance policies on about 5,000 new and existing...

Philip Morris Holds Back Ahead of Tax Daymore

& Williamson and Lorillard struck with attorneys general in 46 states. For investors in nearly $54 billion in...

Tax plans big on hopes, short on painful detailsmore

tax deductions for state and local property taxes, and an end to deductibility for interest on state and municipal...

Muni tax-exemption bill to shrink investor poolmore

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- A Senate proposal to change the tax benefit for buying municipal bonds would effectively...

Robert Powellmore

part, the Society of Actuaries offered the following ways to manage public policy risk: It suggest investing in...

Key strategies to boost your retirement savingsmore

part, the Society of Actuaries offered the following ways to manage public policy risk: It suggest investing in...

WSJ: Muni-Tax Break Under Siegemore

program that expired Dec. 31. Advocates of changing the current exemption face high hurdles. The tax break on municipal...

Muni bonds that won't blow upmore

is overweight in bonds secured by essential service tax revenues, said Peter Hayes, the head of BlackRock's municipal...

Gov. Walker Gets Some Awkward Questionsmore

Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) had intended the hearing to focus on state and...

Hoffa Denounces Appearance By Gov. Scott Walker in Congressmore

Walker was to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee at a hearing titled, "State and...

Why You Should Buy U.S. Treasuriesmore

funds like the , and have liquidated treasuries as well. And just last month, another bond crisis centered around...

Zions Direct Announces Auction Resultsmore

MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Zions Direct ( www.zionsdirect.com ), the online broker-dealer that allows its customers to...

Doug Heske to Head Up Stone & Youngberg���s San Francisco Branch o...more

BUSINESS WIRE)--, a leading financial services firm and the nation���s top underwriter of California and Arizona...

Standard & Poor's Announces Change to U.S. Indexmore

watched commodities index, and the S&P National AMT-Free Municipal Bond Index, the premier investable index for U.S.

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