Muni Bonds News and Perspectives

Have you heard the clucking? It’s the sound of Chicken Little returning to the municipal bond market. In 2008, he paid a visit during the mortgage crisis. At...

Defending the muni-tax exemption – and the fiscal health of state and local governments – seems to be bridging Washington’s great divide. In an unusual...

The storm clouds have finally lifted for holders of bonds insured by National Public Finance Guaranty Corporation (NPFG). On Wednesday, May 8th, Standard...

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...