Another prominent investor increased his bond holdings recently. Bill Gross, manager of PIMCO's Total Return Fund, the world's biggest bond fund, bought...
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Muni Bonds News and Perspectives
Below are bond market commentaries, strategies and analyses written by our municipal bond specialists. They are listed by date.
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Watch Your Golf Game, Not Interest Rates
Judging from our e-mails, it's clear that investors who are new to the tax-free bond market are preoccupied with rising interest rates. Actually, it would be...
Repeal of Dividends Tax Unlikely
Despite President Bush's overwhelming approval ratings, it appears that Congress will dramatically reduce his $725 billion tax cut proposal in the weeks...
Strange Bedfellows, Good Allies
The controversy over an Illinois state judge's ruling involving Altria Group (Philip Morris) has spawned some strange bedfellows, and their common interests...
About Tobacco Settlement Bonds
Despite new challenges to tobacco companies, tobacco settlement bonds remain good investments. Unlike corporate bonds issued directly by tobacco companies,...
Stimulus Plan No Threat to Bond Buyers
There they go again. Almost immediately after President Bush announced his economic stimulus package, the financial media began forecasting higher interest...
Merrill and the Bull
The typically bullish Merrill Lynch surprised Wall Street last week by recommending a shift in asset allocation from equities to bonds. Merrill suggested that...
Welch Bullish on Bonds
Vice President Dick Cheney likes them. So, too, does Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Now comes word that another prominent investor has a big stake in...
The Myth Behind Laddering
Before you decide to invest in municipal bonds, it is important to determine exactly what you are trying to accomplish. If your priority is to maintain...
Stocks and Bonds and Diversification
The "Ahead of the Tape" column in The Wall Street Journal on Oct. 8, 2002, presented some interesting statistics regarding the relative performance of stocks...
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