Muni Bonds News and Perspectives

It’s a challenging time for investors in closed-end municipal bond funds. The combination of rising interest rates and the structure of the funds themselves...

Individual ownership of municipal bonds climbed in the second quarter as investors pounced on munis “priced to perfection.” As of the end of June, households...

One of the nation’s most populous states – and a top issuer of municipal bonds – is showing strong fiscal signs post-pandemic. Soon after the onset of Covid,...

Will today’s plump municipal bond yields look puny down the road? We are often asked this question, and because it touches on the fundamentals of successful...

We have a question for those charging headlong into money-market funds and other short-term securities: What’s next? That is, as the economic environment...

Headlines heralding the stampede into money-market funds are obscuring unusual opportunities in the municipal bond market. For fixed-income investors, it can...

As yields climb to their highest levels in years, an increasing number of investors are assembling their own portfolio of municipal bonds with the assistance...

Florida’s rapid-transit system, which recently completed track linking Orlando to South Florida, is mulling a refinancing to lower interest rates on its...

No one can pinpoint if and when a recession might occur, but there are signs that state and local governments are reacting prudently to the rumblings. As the...

Individual investors are streaming into the municipal bond market, pouring $58.8 billion more in munis in the first quarter of 2023 than they did during the...