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" Municipal bond investors have to share the burden in state bailouts " writes my colleague Josh Rauh, and he is exactly right. Background: State and local governments borrowed a lot of money and blew it. They borrowed further by not funding their pensions. Now Covid comes along, people are ...
At the end of July, Moody's Investors Service released its annual municipal bond market snapshot, US municipal bond defaults and recoveries, 1970-2019, with updates through 2019. The report continues to affirm two hallmark benefits offered by muni bonds. First, municipal defaults and bankruptc...
(Please note: This report was from Aug. 25. Prices and data have changed since then. Please due some additional due diligence before making a trade.) This will be a new monthly report we issue to members. Here we will detail, by asset class and sub-category, finding the two best options....
New York (September 15) - One of the more troubling admissions of Federal Reserve Chair Powell at his speech last month was his acknowledgement that "r-star" (r*), or the "natural" rate of interest, had fallen by some 50% since 2012. As Chair Powell described it: This rate (the r*rate) ...
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Author's note: This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on August 11, 2020. Please check latest data before investing. The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund [CEF] sectors i...
There's no way to overstate just how much the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our daily lives and the broader economy - and the municipal market is no exception. To take stock of where the muni market is now and what we should look for going forward, we turned to Baird Municipal Analyst Mike S...
Distribution stability has returned as leverage costs continue to decline. This is very helpful to closed-end fund ("CEF") earnings power. The greater the spread between the yield on the coupons that they invest in, and the cost of their leverage, the higher the coverage ratios of the funds- t...
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