Suddenly, stock fund inflows are up. Bond fund inflows are up as well -- this, despite predictions of an imminent route in the debt markets. <i>IN's</i> Jason Kephart offers the low-down on the upswing.
The Pimco chief gives Pimco's investment picks and pans if growth falls below 2%
With three more more months of legislative wrangling ahead, investors run the risk of growing indecisive.
Threat to tax-exempt status 'clear and present danger.'
Balanced budget relies on smoke and mirrors; 'wall of debt'
Meet America's new poster-child for fiscal irresponsibility
Fixed income looks like stocks just before lost decade, McNabb says.
Best-performing asset class for second straight-year; 'semi-safe status'
A high-quality credit, New York is issuing muni debt like crazy. And Bill Gross seems more than happy to take advantage of the output.
The governor of Illinois says pension costs have pushed the state to the brink of its own fiscal cliff.
Three market strategists participating in an InvestmentNews webcast favor stocks over bonds in 2013 and see the economy growing slowly amid more bickering in Washington.
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.
Five shops agree to $3.35 million Finra fines, $1.13 million in restitution.
As the clock ticks down on the final day of 2012, the financial markets show a glimmer of hope that Washington will get its act together and reach some kind of agreement ahead of the year-end fiscal cliff.
More discussion of the Mayan calendar? Nope, those words were spoken today about the muni market, which is having its roughest time since Meredith Whitney's dire prediction in 2010.
Munis look to be marginally unfavorable not because of state and city finance issues, but expected yields compared to other taxable bonds.
Knock-on effect of hiked borrowing costs would force municipalities to raise other levies; robbing Peter
