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Glossary

What is "price transparency"? Open a newspaper and see the stock tables...that's price transparency...knowing the price of your stock. Now you can get stock prices "real time" online. Surprisingly, bonds never had anything like this until MunicipalBonds.com pioneered fixed income price transparency by posting Municipal Bond trade and price data back in 2000. MunicipalBonds.com made it possible to see how your bond traded and the prices it traded at. You can now see if you were treated "fairly and reasonably." There are a few ways to look at Municipal Bond trade and price data:
1) Yesterday's Trades & Prices
Yesterday --and Previous Days-- State-by-State Muni Market Reports This allows you to view your State's Muni Market trades/prices similar to how you view stock tables in the newspaper. These daily Muni Market reports archive back to 1995. Did your Municipal Bond have a value yesterday? Access quote information just like you would in the newspaper. Prices & Information by State:
Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Missouri Mississippi	Montana Nebraska New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Nevada North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

2) Today's Real-Time Municipal Bond Trades with Prices reports on a 15-minute delay

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3) Search for a specific Municipal Bond Trade/Price report:

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Would you like to set up a free portfolio here at MunicipalBonds.com to track your Municipal Bonds trades and prices?

Most Actively Traded

In the stock markets there is a common market report generally referred to as the "Most Actively Traded." This also was never available in the bond markets until MunicipalBonds.com pioneered it in 2004.

Please link to a state in the above list.

You can also view the Muni Markets by looking at our Municipal Bond Sector Reports

1) Tobacco Bonds

A special category of Municipal securities tracking the volatile bonds secured against Tobacco company payments, across all states.

2) Pension Obligation Bonds

An unorthodox tool for municipalities to cover shortfalls in their funding of Pension obligations. Unfortunately, they may not be tax exempt.

What is the status of your Pension bonds?

3) Yield Buyer's Report

Is a high yield your priority? Are you OK with story bonds? As a service to Yield Buyers, MunicipalBonds.com generates a daily national report of the highest reported Municipal Bond yields.

Highest Municipal Bond Yield
for TD 08/27/2008

22.64%

For other more Muni Market performance driven reports, both our daily Worst Spreads and Negative Yields reports caused quite a stir when we first exposed them in 2001.

1) Unfair & Unreasonable Spreads

Read about

Red Flagged and potentially illegal Municipal Bond trades.
Also see our Worst Spreads Reports for 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Q1, and 2004 Q2.

Worst Bid/Offer Spread
for TD 08/27/2008

13.625

2) Negative Yields Discovered

MunicipalBonds.com has uncovered negative yields in the secondary Muni Markets. This doesn't appear to be random or one-time-only infractions. We have discovered thousands of cases.

Highest Negative Yield
for TD 08/27/2008

-98.54%

Disclosure

MunicipalBonds.com is also the nationally recognized centralized location for Municipal Bond information and disclosure... ...where access equals delivery.

In the stock market investors are used to continuing disclosure such as quarterly and annual financial statements. The Municipal Bond side isn't as easy...in fact it's been notoriously difficult. Now for the first time, MunicipalBonds.com will offer Municipal financial disclosure to investors free of charge.

OFFICIAL STATEMENTS

In the stock markets there are "Initial Public Offerings or IPOs and it's corresponding "prospectus." On the Municipal Bond side we call them "New Issues" and "Official Statements." This OS archive covers all Municipal Bonds issues since ???? (2000?)

--To locate the Official Statement of your Municipal Bond please start by linking to the State the Municipality is in: and then alphabetically search by Issuer name to find/link to Issuer Home page

**THIS WEEK'S NEW ISSUES**

Coming soon.

ANNUAL STATEMENTS

U.S. Municipalities do issue annual financial statements. Until now they've been impossible to find.

--To locate the Annual Statement of your Municipal Bond Issuer please start by linking to the State the Municipality is in:

and then alphabetically search by Issuer name to find/link to Issuer Home page

MATERIAL EVENT NOTICES

Has something happened to your Municipal Bond Issuer that could affect your Municipal Bond's material value. These announcements from Issuers are important and until now they've also been unavailable to most investors.

--To locate Material Event Notices from your Municipal Bond Issuer please start by linking to the State the Municipality is in:

and then alphabethically search by Issuer name to find/link to Issuer Home page