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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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said Huston, whose parent company owns 22.4 percent of investment-bank Morgan Stanley. The firm���s expansion into...
Barclays Capital Global Aggregate bond index see-sawed over the course of the reporting period and finished modestly...
set at the state, with cities allowed to deviate by only 2 percentage points from the state baseline. Municipal bonds,...
fiscal crisis in states and cities is a buying opportunity for John Hirsch. He's been snapping up municipal bonds since...
bristled at the request, and some have gone as far as to say that they may stop trading municipal bonds for individual...
Bonds Are Inflation-Protected and Tax Favored More From The Tax Guy How Long Will the Tax Break on Municipal Bonds...
lowest since October and below the recent average of 40%. Barron's Clare McKeen discusses the Roundtable on Municipal...
Simon Smith and Michael Derks at FxPro in a note. Barron's Clare McKeen discusses the Roundtable on Municipal Bonds...
municipal bond funds, which buy the debt of state and local governments. Investors have been pulling out of muni bonds...
Barron's Clare McKeen discusses the Roundtable on Municipal Bonds with Editor in Chief, Randall Forsyth.
Oppenheimer Rochester Municipals fund seemed like an obvious choice. The fund, as its name implies, is filled with...
advantages. Here's what to consider. More From The Tax Guy How Long Will the Tax Break on Municipal Bonds Last? How to...
Thursday, along with Jim Dinegar, CEO of the D.C. Board of Trade; Matt Fabian, a consultant on municipal bonds; and...
Meredith Whitney, a financial analyst, last year made a controversial call that hundreds of billions of dollars of...
The fund���s emerging markets exposure increased to 11% of the portfolio, up from 10% in March, while municipal bonds...
the mortgage realm, Goldman is being investigated for its dealings with the government of Greece, its handling of...
thus bolstered prices, but that support has disappeared. Finally, insurance companies that once covered nearly 60% of...
This month, bond insurer Assured Guaranty Municipal began offering insurance policies on about 5,000 new and existing...
program that expired Dec. 31. Advocates of changing the current exemption face high hurdles. The tax break on municipal...
what's called "duration), according to Morningstar. That's because muni fund managers often invest heavily in...
Over the past year, what has historically been one of the safest investments in America, municipal bonds, hasn't felt...
Oppenheimer Rochester Municipals fund seemed like an obvious choice. The fund, as its name implies, is filled with...
ID Password Manager (HIPM). DTCC, through its subsidiaries, provides clearing, settlement and information services for...
firm MBIA Inc. The short-term move, part of an overall hedging strategy tied to Morgan's ownership of municipal bonds...
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