Muni Bonds News and Perspectives

Holders of tobacco settlement bonds were rewarded with good news on two fronts this week by R.J. Reynolds - one business related and one legal. Business wise,...

Can you time the market? Does it make sense to try? More than two years ago, we launched a series of articles that examined those questions. We put to the...

During the devastating stock market meltdown of the early '00s, the financial media was quick to point out (albeit after the fact) that much of the pain could...

Striking another blow to class-action suits against tobacco companies, the Illinois Supreme Court reinstated the reduced bonding amount of $6.8 billion...

Thanks to Newsweek's July 28th cover story, "California in Crisis," the Golden State's political and economic problems are no longer a secret. Since last...

Is there a port in the bond storm? That was the question a CNBC reporter posed to Pimco's Bill Gross, known as the "bond king." In an interview last week, the...

Individual investors increased their municipal bond holdings by more than $21.2 billion in the first quarter of 2003, according to the Federal Reserve Board's...

We recently attended the annual Tobacco Merchants Association conference and interviewed Standard & Poor's to better gauge the impact that the Master...

Gosh, how time flies when you're waiting for higher interest rates. It's hard to believe that two years have passed since I wrote my original article...

Another prominent investor increased his bond holdings recently. Bill Gross, manager of PIMCO's Total Return Fund, the world's biggest bond fund, bought...