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In U.S. high yield bonds we find the riskiest of credits. I have some concerns about municipal bonds and am particularly concerned about municipal pension bonds. Our 'Borrower's Paradise' is also good news for many leveraged ETFs and closed-end funds. For further details see...
" 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...
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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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...
Of all of the Fixed-Income markets, Municipals are the most disjointed. Yes, there are some large state issues, where liquidity can be found, but there are also very small issues, from small municipalities, that are not only general obligation bonds but also revenue bonds from school districts...
I make no political comment. None, as in Zero. My attention is fully focused on the markets and what is driving them, as we proceed through our hectic summer. It is clear to me, in this pursuit, that certain actions are pushing the markets one way and another, fiercely, depending upon the surg...
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