The primary concern of all bond investors is whether they will ultimately get their money back. This is especially the case with municipal bond investors: Municipal bond investors willingly accept lower yields compared to other fixed income investments primarily due to the safety record of municipal bonds.
When an issuer fails to live up to the payment obligations of a particular …

The interest income earned from municipal bonds is tax-free of all federal income taxes regardless of your tax bracket. This is the most significant benefit of municipal bonds and it is a characteristic unique to municipal bonds. Not even US Treasuries offer income that is free from federal income taxes.
Additionally, municipal bonds can be free of state income taxes as …

Every municipal bond trade has 5 basic elements. The 5 elements are maturity date, interest rate, price, $ amount traded, and yield.
3 of the 5 elements are similar to the elements of a bank CD. For a CD, these are the amount invested, the length of the CD, and the interest rate. For a municipal bond, the 3 similar concepts …

This is an introduction on how to buy municipal bonds in the secondary market in the most basic sense. Individual investors can buy bonds when the bonds are originally issued or buy bonds in the secondary market after the bonds have already been issued. For the purposes of this article, we will cover buying bonds in the secondary market. We …

There are two ways to buy municipal bonds: 1) Investors can buy municipal bonds when the bonds are first issued or 2) investors can buy bonds after the bonds have been issued in the secondary market. This is similar to stocks; investors can buy stock during the IPO (initial public offering) or after the stock begins trading in the market. …

MunicipalBonds.com has launched a first-of-its-kind Composite Yield Curves for municipal bonds. Our yield curves are simple, comprehensive, and real-time. Throughout the trading day, we take every trade that happened in a given maturity year and compute an average yield on a real-time basis. Click on one of the states below or read on:
California - New York - Florida - New …

DerivActiv MuniMarket Pulse Podcast: Matt Fabian, Managing Director of Municipal Market Advisors, talks about how the muni market will handle the anticipated supply of large issues. Also; Federal intervention is not necessarily a good thing for the market. (7 m 40 s)

DerivActiv MuniMarket Pulse Podcast: Tom Doe, Founder and CEO of Municipal Market Advisors reviews February’s muni market performance. Also, seasonal patterns in the municipal market and the trend toward negotiated bond sales. (14 m 30 s)

We’re pleased to announce that MunicipalBonds.com has activated real-time pricing on all of our state pages. As a part of our ongoing test launch process, we have started to display trades on a minute-by-minute basis. When you click on California, you can see the latest trades that happened in the municipal marketplace. This means that every single trade of your state’s …

$445,090,000 - District of Columbia

Merrill Lynch & Co.

Here are the Preliminary Price ideas for
The DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
- Please remember this is only an idea.
- These figures will change up until the pricing of the issue.
- Your orders are not guaranteed to be filled.
$445,090,000*
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
INCOME TAX SECURED REVENUE BONDS
SERIES 2009 A AND B
WE WILL RUN A RETAIL ORDER PERIOD TODAY, …