Muni Bonds News and Perspectives

You know him as the guy who’s virtually unstoppable on the field and a fun-loving attention-magnet off it. So how does football star Rob Gronkowski handle the...

Did you have a bad spring? A prominent business publication thinks you did. Though we appreciate their concern, we had a lovely spring. Our interest clock...

Creditors agreed to give Puerto Rico’s electric utility a little more time as it attempts to work out a turnaround plan. In this latest move, creditors agreed...

Puerto Rico’s legislature ratified a series of tax measures that are expected to raise $1.2 billion in revenue and pave the way for additional financing. The...

Underrated. How else to explain how regulators and credit agencies regard municipal bonds? Take, for example, a recent report on two interesting studies by...

Why does such a simple word mean so much to so many? It’s a question we’re left asking after the Fed set the interest rate-watching cognoscenti abuzz when it...

Muni insurer Assured Guaranty Corp. has acquired Radian Asset Assurance Inc. AGC paid $804.5 million in cash for the company. Radian Asset’s capital, as of...

Seems Puerto Rico can’t catch a break from the rating agencies. In June 2014, the beleaguered commonwealth passed a law that would have enabled its public...

A House subcommittee heard testimony on a bill that would allow Puerto Rico’s government-owned corporations to restructure their debt under Chapter 9 of the...

2014 is the first year that certain new IRS cost-basis reporting rules apply to municipal bonds and other fixed-income securities. The changes to 1099 forms...