Muni Bonds News and Perspectives

Individual investors continued aggressively buying tax-free municipal bonds in 2005, according to the Federal Reserve Board's quarterly "Flow of Funds" data....

Where does Suze Orman, the high profile "financial freedom" counselor, invest her own money? According to a recent newspaper article, Ms. Orman finds...

You're probably familiar with the inverted yield curve. The TV talkers and financial press are aflutter with the phenomenon, and it's become part of the...

General Motors Acceptance Corp. is drawing interest from various suitors, including Citigroup Inc. and Wachovia Corp. Citigroup Inc. and hedge fund Cerberus...

Ford Motor Company this week announced improved fourth quarter 2005 results and presented its long awaited turnaround plan that it calls "Way Forward."...

General Motors announced losses (net of special items) of $3.4 billion for calendar year 2005 and $1.2 billion in the year's final quarter, capping one of the...

General Motors plans to get its automobile business back on track, management told automobile analysts recently, by focusing on the quality of GM products,...

In a decision that may have far reaching implications for the municipal bond market, the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that it is unconstitutional for the...

Iowa has joined the growing list of tobacco settlement bond issuers who have refinanced all or a portion of debt secured by payments from the Master...

The president's tax-reform panel has good news for bond investors: it wants the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) eliminated. The bad news is that it probably...