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- Best Buys on Bonds
- Despite the nascent stock-market rally, the once-stodgy bond market remains the hot new thing for wary investors. Corporate and municipal bonds offer some temptingly high yields. Treasuries promise a safe haven. But the market is riddled with risks. Learn how to avoid them... Although stocks have bounced back in recent...
- Articles 2009-03-17
- Lessons from Your '08 Return
- Your 2008 taxes are done. Congrats! But you're not done yet. This is the perfect time to look for ways to lower your 2009 taxes, while you have all your records and forms handy. The sooner you get started, the more you'll save. ...
- Articles 2009-04-03
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- What You Need To Know About Investing In Municipal Bonds
- Municipal bonds are the only sector of the bond market where the primary buyers are individual investors. The chief attraction of munis municipal bonds is that they are exempt from federal taxes. If a person is a resident of the state issuing the bonds, they are also exempt from state...
- White papers 2002-10-01
- Municipal Bonds: Safe Haven No More
- Andy Abraham submits: Many times just using logic an investor can steer away from problems. It seemed forever municipal bonds were considered one of the safest investments. One did not get rich by investing in municipal bonds, however they were consistent and the default possibility was almost not a possibility....
- External links 2009-11-10
- Municipal Bonds
- Municipal bonds are debt obligations issued by states, cities, counties and other governmental entities to raise money to build schools, highways, hospitals and sewer systems, as well as many other projects for the public good. When one purchase a municipal bond, one are lending money to an issuer who promises...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Fitch: New 'AAApre' Rating Designation for Prerefunded Municipal Bonds
- NEW YORK -- In a newly released criteria report, Fitch Ratings has updated its guidelines for rating prerefunded municipal debt and announced the creation of its new 'AAApre' designation for prerefunded municipal bonds. The report notes when a bond issuer refinances outstanding bonds in advance of their redemption or...
- Research articles 2005-11-21
- 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.
- Research articles 1997-09-05
- Insured Municipal Bonds
- Municipal bonds historically have been an exceptionally safe and tax-favored investment. And they're even more attractive when they're insured — that is, when scheduled interest and principal payments are guaranteed by Triple-A rated municipal bond insurers. Municipal bond insurance protects investors primarily in two ways. Occasionally, cities or states that...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Earn Tax-Free Income With Municipal Bonds
- Nobody likes to pay taxes. That's why investors naturally are interested in earning tax-free income. Municipal bond issues are a very popular way to earn tax-free income and, if income is reinvested, achieve tax-free compounding of returns. Municipal bonds (also known as "Munis") are fixed-income investments that can provide higher...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Zero Coupon Municipal Bonds
- Zero coupon bonds were introduced to the fixed income market in 1982. They were — and are — a unique concept in the marketplace. While most municipal bonds provide semiannual interest payments, zero coupon bonds, as their name suggests, have no "coupon," or periodic interest payments. Instead, the investor receives...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Municipal Bonds: When "Tax-Free" Isn't So Free
- Municipal bonds have long been an attractive investment option for tax-sensitive investors, because munis are free of federal income tax and often state tax too. Add in the fact that munis generally have relatively higher credit quality and lower price volatility than comparable taxable bonds, and munis could trump corporate...
- White papers 2006-01-11
- How Prevalent Is Tax Arbitrage? Evidence From the Market for Municipal Bonds
- Although tax arbitrage is central to the literatures on tax capitalization, implicit taxes, and even capital structure, there is little empirical evidence of the extent to which firms actually engage in tax arbitrage. This paper provides some evidence on the topic by focusing on a simple and observable corporate arbitrage...
- White papers 2002-08-01
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-05-19
- Sleazy: America's municipal bonds.
- Municipal bonds are managed under very little regulation, so it cannot be considered surprising that that some shady deals have been uncovered. The Securities and Exchange Commission is not considering enacting stronger measures to regulate their trade.WITH $1.2 trillion-worth of paper outstanding, the municipal-bond market can claim to be...
- Research articles 1993-06-12
- Municipal Bonds Rally
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Municipal bonds have made a huge comeback since they tanked in late 2008. After falling to $88, the national municipal bond ETF MUB just recently hit an all-time high of $104.3. The trading in munis runs counter to the concerns people...
- External links 2009-09-16
- Electric deregulation could threaten municipal bonds.
- The integrity of many municipal bonds could be jeopardized by the passage of numerous legislative electric-utility deregulation proposals now before the U.S. Congress. These bonds are at risk to retroactive federal taxes unless stringent anti-competitive measures are met by the issuing city. The House Energy and Power subcommittee...
- Research articles 1997-10-27
- Senate measure zaps local authority.(municipal bonds to finance electric power)
- Legislation, introduced by Sen Frank Murkowski, calls for an end to the ability of public power cities to issue municipal bonds in order to finance their electric power. The bill, which is retroactive to Nov 8, 1997, preempts the right of states and cities to use bonds to protect existing...
- Research articles 1997-11-17
- Wrong villains in yield burnings.(state and municipal bonds)
- The Internal Revenue Service is threatening to declare that many state and municipal bonds should be taxed on the gains to the underwriters that were brought about by refinancing. Many observers feel that the IRS is being both shortsighted and arbitrary in the pursuit of this 'yield burning' activity. ...
- Research articles 1998-04-27
- Fitch Comments on Impact of Ambac Downgrade on Insured Municipal Bonds
- NEW YORK -- On Jan. 18, 2008 Fitch Ratings downgraded the insurer financial strength IFS ratings on Ambac Financial Group Inc.'s affiliated insurance entities Ambac to 'AA' from 'AAA', and they remain on Rating Watch Negative RWN. The IFS rating downgrades resulted in corresponding downgrades on approximately 137,000 Ambac-insured municipal...
- Research articles 2008-01-22
- Liquidity, Default, Taxes and Yields on Municipal Bonds
- This paper examines the relative yields of Treasuries and municipals using a generalized model that includes liquidity as a state factor. Using a unique transaction dataset, it is able to estimate the liquidity risk of municipals and its effect on bond yields. It is found that a substantial portion of...
- White papers 2005-07-08
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