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Trump tax cut sets off boom in taxable munis
Once sleepy corner of municipal bond market has seen issuance double this year
The only certainty is death, taxes, and muni advantages
Readers are flocking to stories on tax-free munis — but why?
Calls mount for investors to sell high-yield munis
The return this year on high-yield state and government debt is about twice that on corporate junk bonds.
Cash floods into muni bond funds
Municipal bonds have outperformed Treasuries and corporates this year.
Municipal bonds once seen as the safest are now tarnished
Bonds backed by revenue streams such as taxes or tolls are starting to see downgrades from the rating agencies
Finra panel awards five UBS clients $521,000 in damages over Puerto Rican bonds
Puerto Rican residents charged the firm with fraud and breach of fiduciary duty.
Fintech startup wants to help advisers find and sell muni bonds
280 CapMarkets says its Bond Navigator product is like Zillow for bonds
The danger of more uncertainty in the muni market
With three more more months of legislative wrangling ahead, investors run the risk of growing indecisive.
No cliff for old munis
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.
30 cities in California face ratings ax
Moody's downgrade would effect $14B in munis; slow economic recovery cited
Muni bonds: More bang for the buck
With retail investors exiting municipal bonds for the past six months because of sharply rising interest rates and much-publicized default fears, the asset class now represents an island of high-quality value in a sea of relatively expensive fixed-income options
