Muni Bonds News and Perspectives

Were you among the muni investors in the 1970s and ‘80s who found themselves with bonds paying 4.00% or even 6.00% that were suddenly trading at 50 cents on...

Over the years, CNBC has served investors well by providing timely and accurate business news. But when the network blurs the line between hard news and...

What have we learned from Meredith Whitney? It’s been a little more than two years since her infamous predictions of massive muni defaults helped send the...

It barely registers on the radar of financial chat shows, a blip amid the fantastic prognostications of pundits. If you look carefully, however, you’ll find...

Standard & Poor’s recently downgraded National Public Finance Guarantee, but a view beyond the setback shows a company poised to reestablish itself as a...

Another bold market prediction is providing grist for the headline mill. This latest high-profile prognostication calls for “The Great Rotation” of investment...

If California’s finances seem to rise and fall like its world-famous surf, we’re approaching a swell in the Golden State. Standard & Poor’s has upgraded...

If you don’t consider yourself a speculative investor, but still hold tobacco bonds originally purchased as investment-grade securities, Moody’s recent...

There they go again – the pundits predicting a spike in long-term interest rates and suggesting income investors keep their powder dry until these higher...

Did you hear it? We’re referring to the exhale by governors, mayors and countless government finance officers. It was a collective sigh of relief that the...