Muni Bonds News and Perspectives

Can you time the municipal bond market? Are you waiting for just the right moment when you’re confident yields are at their peak or have bottomed out? For...

If municipal bond investors aren’t seeing returns of more than 6.00%, they’re missing the obvious. The key, of course, is focusing on tax-equivalency. As...

Chalk up a win for the municipal bond market, local infrastructure projects and individual investors. Under new legislation passed by Congress,...

Congress eliminated a key tool state and local governments use to save money and fund hospitals, school, bridges and other public works. Now they need to...

Q&A with James A. Klotz, president of FMSbonds, Inc., on the new pricing regulation and what it means to municipal bond investors. Muni Brokerage Head...

A new rule intended to increase transparency in the municipal bond market is instead creating some fog. The rule, which takes effect next month, attempts to...

Do successful municipal bond investors need a clairvoyant? It’s a notion that has legs - or so it seems, judging from recent online posts by some...

To foreign investors, there’s nothing foreign about U.S. municipal bonds. Repelled by low and sometimes negative interest rates in their home countries,...

Anxious municipal bond investors hanging onto the Fed chief’s remarks heard more of a siren song than a signal to buy. It’s true Jerome Powell thinks...

Did munis lose their shine, or are they an ideal investment for our times? Has supply cratered, or will the market expand? If you’re an investor following the...