Muni Bonds News and Perspectives

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...

Despite new challenges to tobacco companies, tobacco settlement bonds remain good investments. Unlike corporate bonds issued directly by tobacco companies,...

There they go again. Almost immediately after President Bush announced his economic stimulus package, the financial media began forecasting higher interest...