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. …

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 …

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 market reaction to the 4th Largest Bond Issue ever from State of California. Also; the first Build America Bond comes to market. (7 m 45 s)

Next week, California has a major new bond issue coming to market. The expected size of the issue is $4 billion. The State of California is going to have a 2-day Retail Order Period. This means that individual investors will have an opportunity to buy bonds at the exact same price that major institutions and funds pay for the bonds. When investors buy bonds through retail order periods, there are no commissions or markups.

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)

STATE OF CALIFORNIA
VARIOUS PURPOSE GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS
$4,000,000,000

Preliminary Pricing

Sale Date:
Retail Order Period: March 23-24, 2009
Sale Date: March 25, 2009
Closing Date: April 2, 2009

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, …