James Colby
James Colby is a portfolio manager and senior municipal strategist for Market Vectors municipal bond investments (VanEck). Connect with him on LinkedIn.
James Colby is a portfolio manager and senior municipal strategist for Market Vectors municipal bond investments (VanEck). Connect with him on LinkedIn.
Loss of tax revenues, user fees and consumption at the local level could result in further belt-tightening.
With three more more months of legislative wrangling ahead, investors run the risk of growing indecisive.
In the eleventh hour of the first night of 2013, Congress passed legislation which, among tax increases and other items, left the municipal bond coupon tax-free and unscathed.
Municipal bond yields have sunk to near historic lows. Sector and quality spreads continue to narrow. To date,…
The municipal bond market entered the month of August on a roll. A seemingly disproportionate level amount of…
As shown in the chart (above), the yield spread between investment grade AAA and BBB municipal bonds was 214 bps at the end of June.
• According to S&P: – Upgrades of muni bonds outpaced downgrades 121 to 83 in Q1 2012.
Municipal bonds are “Main Street investments,” with an estimated 73% of the $3.7 trillion in outstanding principal owned…
A particular saying I used to hear around the office of my first job was, “let’s throw it…
