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Municipal Bond
in the United States, a security issued by states, local governments, and municipalities to pay for special projects such as highways
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Aquila Investment Management Praises Supreme Court Ruling on Municipal Bonds as Victory for States and Shareholders
NEW YORK -- Aquila Investment Management LLC, adviser to a family of seven single-state tax-free municipal bond funds, today applauded the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Kentucky v. Davis, which upheld the right of states to tax interest on out-of-state municipal bonds while exempting their own bond interest from...
Tags: Aquila Mining Systems, municipal bond, shareholder
Research articles 2008-05-19
Morgan Keegan is Again Top Ranked Municipal Bond Underwriter in Six-State Region That Includes Arkansas
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc. was the leading underwriter in 2007 of municipal bond issues in the South Central Region of the United States, a six-state area that includes Arkansas, according to Thomson Financial, one of the nation's leading municipal bond information services.
Tags: bond, municipal bond
Research articles 2008-01-08
Barclays Global Investors Announces the Trading of the First State Municipal Bond Exchange Traded Funds
Barclays Global Investors BGI announced that the iShares S&P California Municipal Bond Fund (AMEX: CMF) and the iShares S&P New York Municipal Bond Fund (AMEX: NYF) will begin trading today on the American Stock Exchange. They are the first state municipal bond ETFs available to U.S. investors and they...
Tags: AMEX, Barclays Plc., municipal bond
Research articles 2007-10-05
Barclays Global Investors Announces the Trading of the First U.S. Listed Municipal Bond Exchange Traded Fund
Barclays Global Investors BGI announced that the iShares S&P National Municipal Bond Fund (AMEX: MUB) will begin trading today on the American Stock Exchange. It is the first municipal bond ETF available to U.S. investors. The Fund is designed to track a liquid, institutional quality municipal bond index...
Tags: Barclays Plc., municipal bond
Research articles 2007-09-10
Allstate invests $160.7M in municipal bonds in Oklahoma
Allstate invested $160.7 million in municipal bonds in Oklahoma during 2006.
Tags: Allstate Corp., municipal bond
Research articles 2007-06-12
Market Vectors Launches Long Municipal Bond ETF on American Stock Exchange
NEW YORK -- New York-based asset manager Van Eck Global today launched on the American Stock Exchange the Market Vectors-Lehman Brothers AMT-Free Long Municipal Index ETF (Amex: MLN), designed to offer investors exposure to investment-grade municipal bonds with a nominal maturity of 17 years or more.
Tags: American Stock Exchange, municipal bond
Research articles 2008-01-07
Morgan Keegan is Leading Municipal Bond Underwriter in Louisiana and South Central United States in Third Quarter 2006
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc., senior managed more municipal bond issues in Louisiana and the South Central United States than any other firm in the country during the third quarter of 2006, according to Thomson Financial, one of the nation's leading municipal bond information services.
Tags: municipal bond
Research articles 2006-10-17
Market Vectors Adds to Family of Muni Bond ETFS; Launches Short Term Municipal Bond ETF On American Stock Exchange
NEW YORK -- New York-based asset manager Van Eck Global today launched on the American Stock Exchange[R] the Market Vectors-Lehman Brothers AMT-Free Short Municipal Index ETF (Amex: SMB). The new ETF is designed to offer investors exposure to investment-grade municipal bonds with a nominal maturity of 1-6 years.
Tags: American Stock Exchange, municipal bond
Research articles 2008-02-26
At the Bell; Edward Jones fined 300G by NASD.(Late News)
Edward D. Jones & Co. LP of St. Louis was fined $300,000 by Washington-based NASD last Thursday for failing to disclose the yield in more than 86,000 municipal bond transactions totaling more than $1 billion in sales from January 2003 to April Edward...
Tags: municipal bond, NASD
Research articles 2005-10-03
Investment banks wake up to once-sleepy muni bonds; Wall St. embraces public finance as rising tide of issues hits the market.(Bear Stearns and Company Inc.)(Statistical Data Included)
By late summer, bear Stearns' Dan Keating was energized. The senior managing director's public finance group was already well on its way to its best performance in years. And that was even before Bear Stearns & Co. led 17 other Wall Street firms By late...
Tags: Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., bond, finance, municipal bond, stock, wall
Research articles 2001-10-15
Reuters Adds US Municipal Bond Data
NEW YORK -- Reuters (NASDAQ:RTRSY) (LSE:RTR), the global information company, will offer its fixed income customers enhanced US municipal bond data through an agreement with Mergent Inc, a leading provider of global corporate and financial information and a part of Xinhua Finance Group (TSE Mothers:9399). This announcement signals another step...
Tags: fixed income, municipal bond, Thomson Reuters Corp.
Research articles 2005-06-27
IRS playing hardball on abusive municipal bond deals.(TAX EXEMPTS)(tax policy of Internal Revenue Service)(Brief Article)
The Service is playing hardball on abusive municipal bond deals: The Service is playing hardball on abusive municipal bond deals:
Tags: Internal Revenue Service, municipal bond, tax
Research articles 2005-05-20
Municipal Bonds Not Likely to Lose Popularity.(Originated from The Orange County Register, Calif.)
Sep. 5--Municipal bonds aren't about to go out of style. Sep. 5--Municipal bonds aren't about to go out of style.
Tags: municipal bond, Orange PCS
Research articles 1997-09-05
Dreyfus Strategic Municipal Bond Fund, Inc. Releases Fund Statistics
NEW YORK -- The following information for Dreyfus Strategic Municipal Bond Fund, Inc. (NYSE: DSM) is as of December 31, 2007 except as otherwise noted, and is subject to change at any time. All percentages are based on total net assets except as otherwise noted.
Tags: bond, municipal bond
Research articles 2008-01-25
Morgan Stanley Insured Municipal Bond Trust Declares Long-Term Capital Gain Distribution
Business Editors
Tags: Morgan Stanley, municipal bond
Research articles 2002-11-26
Changes afoot in coverage for muni bonds.(Statistical Data Included)
Municipalities that buy long-term municipal bond insurance are probably paying more for coverage these days. Led by Armonk, N.Y.-based MBIA Inc., the largest monoline financial guarantee insurer, insurers of long-term municipal bonds have raised r Municipalities that buy long-term municipal bond insurance are...
Tags: asset, bond, insurance company, MBIA Inc., municipal bond
Research articles 2000-01-31
IRS Power to Tax Holders of Tax-exempt Bonds Upheld.(Originated from The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.)
Nov. 23--For municipal bond investors, the message from a recent U.S. Tax Court ruling involving securities issued by the Riverside County Housing Authority was an all too sobering one: Nov. 23--For municipal bond investors, the message from a recent U.S. Tax Court ruling involving securities issued...
Tags: Internal Revenue Service, municipal bond, tax
Research articles 1995-11-22
Robert Germano Joins Prudential Municipal Bond Portfolio Team
Business Editors
Tags: bond, municipal bond, Prudential Insurance Company of America, team
Research articles 2002-03-27
PRENTICE HALL PUBLISHES NEW MULTIMEDIA REFERENCE ON MUNICIPAL BOND TAX ISSUES
Prentice Hall Law & Business (Englewood Cliffs, NJ) has published "Federal Taxation of Municipal Bonds," a new six-volume reference, including text and computer discs, for research on municipal bond issues. A subscription to the new referPrentice Hall Law & Business (Englewood Cliffs, NJ) has published "Federal...
Tags: municipal bond
Research articles 1993-11-16
Pennsylvania Treasurer Testifies Before Congress About Turmoil in Municipal Bond Market
To: STATE EDITORS To: STATE EDITORS
Tags: municipal bond, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2008-03-12
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