Muni Bonds News and Perspectives

Striking another blow to class-action suits against tobacco companies, the Illinois Supreme Court reinstated the reduced bonding amount of $6.8 billion...

Thanks to Newsweek's July 28th cover story, "California in Crisis," the Golden State's political and economic problems are no longer a secret. Since last...

Is there a port in the bond storm? That was the question a CNBC reporter posed to Pimco's Bill Gross, known as the "bond king." In an interview last week, the...

Individual investors increased their municipal bond holdings by more than $21.2 billion in the first quarter of 2003, according to the Federal Reserve Board's...

We recently attended the annual Tobacco Merchants Association conference and interviewed Standard & Poor's to better gauge the impact that the Master...

Gosh, how time flies when you're waiting for higher interest rates. It's hard to believe that two years have passed since I wrote my original article...

Another prominent investor increased his bond holdings recently. Bill Gross, manager of PIMCO's Total Return Fund, the world's biggest bond fund, bought...

Judging from our e-mails, it's clear that investors who are new to the tax-free bond market are preoccupied with rising interest rates. Actually, it would be...

Despite President Bush's overwhelming approval ratings, it appears that Congress will dramatically reduce his $725 billion tax cut proposal in the weeks...

The controversy over an Illinois state judge's ruling involving Altria Group (Philip Morris) has spawned some strange bedfellows, and their common interests...