White House seeks to limit interest income that can be sheltered; states, cities already lining up against proposal
Frank A. Barbera Jr., co-portfolio manager of the Sierra Core Retirement Fund, tracks a staggering number of jobs reports and other economic indicators
Bill Gross, manager of the world's biggest mutual fund, is seeking to reassure clients that he hasn't lost his touch after he misjudged the extent of the economic slowdown, causing his Pimco Total Return Fund to trail rivals this year
Bill Gross has increased holdings of mortgage bonds in Pimco's flagship fund to the highest level since January in light of the Federal Reserve Board's announcement of plans to reinvest housing debt into the securities to drive borrowing rates lower
Investors should buy Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities, which have slumped in response to planned changes to the government-supported companies' refinancing rules, according to Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC
Junk bonds are becoming as attractive as stocks as relative yields on the debt soar to a two-year high and a U.S. recession becomes likelier, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.
If you need another sign that investors are completely spooked by the stock market, consider this: The Roosevelt Investment Group Inc., a $5 billion asset management and advisory firm known for its hefty stock allocations, is moving into the fixed-income space
The supercommittee charged with putting together a deficit reduction package by Thanksgiving isn't likely to find the seven votes it needs to trim the tax exemption for investing in municipalities.
The Clare at Water Tower missed $229m payment this month
Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc. won a small victory last week when a class action brought by investors in a Tennessee state court was dismissed by a federal judge. But it doesn't look as if the troubled securities firm is any closer to being sold than when its parent company, Regions Financial Corp., put it up for sale three months ago
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the best-selling book “The Black Swan,” said the current global market turmoil is worse than it was in 2008 because countries such as the U.S. have larger sovereign-debt loads.
The poor outlook for fixed-income returns is pushing some institutional investors to consider more-active approaches to managing their fixed-income portfolios
BlackRock Inc., the world's biggest money manager, has been buying junk bonds since relative yields widened to levels that signal default rates more than three times the current pace and in excess of Wall Street's most bearish outlooks for the economy
A federal funds target at virtually 0% poses an immediate threat to bondholders amid rising inflation and negative real yields, according to Bill Gross, who runs the world's biggest mutual fund at Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC
Hang on for a rough ride as the European sovereign-debt crisis continues
Even a puny rise in interest rates will slam current holders of U.S. debt; inflationary shock 'a high probability'
Industry observers think the Securities and Exchange Commission will have to backtrack on a proposal to increase the number of people regulated as municipal advisers
The worst may be over for municipal-bond funds
