Muni Bonds News and Perspectives

ACA announced it has received a $120 million equity investment, strengthening its capital base considerably. The investment decision by Bear Stearns Merchant...

How important is the municipal bond market, and how much useful information does the media provide to investors? Consider this. On a daily basis, the dollar...

Lawsuits challenging the tobacco industry remain small in threat, but loom large in the public's eye. This was the prevailing view of various analysts and...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the California economic recovery received a pat on the back from Moody's Investors Service, which raised the state's general...

Standard & Poor’s said it has no immediate plans to change ACA Financial Guaranty Corp.’s credit rating. “The company is starting to make money and...

Caution: Paying too much attention to Fed watchers can be injurious to your long-term financial health. Maybe, instead of watching the Fed watchers, we should...

We believe a recent decision by Moody’s to downgrade its ratings on all tobacco settlement bonds was premature and unwarranted. To date, neither of the other...

There is a ray of hope for tax-free bond investors who are afraid of becoming subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). Municipal bond investors paying...

Do you own bonds that are subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)? Recently, it has become an issue for many investors, and experts predict that the...

Last month, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan sent the Treasury bond market into a tailspin by making a subtle semantical adjustment in the wording of the Fed's...