The U.S. Cities Drowning In Debt [Infographic]

The average person in the U.S. is around $96,400 in debt. Now, if Americans would be charged by their hometowns and cities for the debt they have taken on in the name of their residents, a fairly big ...

Brazil’s Sao Paulo Embraces Blockchain For Municipal Law

20 mins ago | 2 mins read Blockchain News The Brazilian Development Bank established the Brazilian Blockchain network in May. The legislation acknowledges improving data accessibility and openness usi...

Vanguard expects municipal bond ‘renaissance’ as investors should ‘salivate’ at higher yields

Investors who allocated to municipal bonds with paltry yields at the beginning of last year should now “salivate” at the prospect of higher income following the rapid rise in interest rates in 2022, a...

Should I Invest in Municipal Bonds During Rate Hikes?

SmartAsset: Investing in Municipal Bonds During Rate Hikes Municipal bonds, or “munis,” are popular investments for a few reasons. Most notably, as a government bond, they can be the closest thing to ...

Alphaledger Achieves Industry Milestone With the Recording of U.S. Municipal Bond Originations on Blockchain

Innovating in the U.S. Regulated Municipal Market POULSBO, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Alphaledger has recorded municipal bond originations on blockchain infrastructure in the United States, utilizing paral...

Mispriced Municipal Bonds Cost Mutual Fund Shareholders And Taxpayers Billions Of Dollars

Money Flow in Black Hole extreme closeup getty In a market where at least 99% of trillions of dollars of fixed income securities have no trades to offer price discovery and the financial data to asses...

Municipal Bonds And ESG: All Hat, No Cattle

Houston skyline (Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty Images) Getty Images Houston, we have an ESG problem. Or do we? From an ESG-risk perspective, between the weather and petroleum-dependent economy, the Ci...

Relief For The Digital Data-Starved $3.9 Trillion Municipal Bond Market

Like a bug trapped in amber, crucial financial information on thousands of bonds in multi-billion-dollar municipal bond mutual fund portfolios held by millions of shareholders is in a similar fossiliz...

Municipal Bonds Are Offering the Yields You’re Looking For. Here’s Where to Look.

A historic rout in the bond market this year has resulted in the highest yields on municipal bonds in 15 years—and what looks like an excellent buying opportunity. At midweek, the muni market, as meas...

Municipal bond yields are attractive now — here’s how to figure out if they are right for you

This has been an unusual year for financial markets, with stocks and bonds falling in tandem. For bonds, the declines mean yields have become viable again for income investors who over the previous de...

Texas Pushes Back With Municipal Bonds

Texas makes a stand getty Political push-back comes in many forms. In a September 12, 2022 amendment to a municipal bond Official Statement for bonds issued by the City of Anna, Texas, they drew a gia...

Chinese Municipal Government Pushes Metaverse Plans After Shanghai City’s 5-Year Proposal

On August 23, the Chinese local government body announced the “Beijing Urban Sub-Center Metaverse Innovation and Development Action Plan (2022 -2024)” Beijing municipal department of Tongzhou District...

How To Find Bargains In Municipal Bond Funds

Tax-exempt bonds have gotten a lot cheaper. Here’s a guide to finding the best deals. Borrower in California getty Rates up, prices down. The bond market crash has not spared municipal-bond funds. In ...

Should I Sell The Municipal Bonds I Inherited From My Father?

Some people are so avid about avoiding taxes that they make big mistakes with their portfolios. “I’m worried about the New Jersey municipal bonds that my father bought. I got them when he died in 2015...

Municipal Bonds Are Down So Much That They’re Buys Again

Text size Al Drago/Bloomberg A funny thing happened in the past week, as news emerged of inflation hitting a four-decade high. A few strategists started looking a bit more positively on bonds, or at l...

Best Municipal Bond ETFs for Q2 2022

Municipal bond exchange-traded funds (ETFs) provide investors with diversified access to the municipal bond market. Municipal bonds, or munis, are debt instruments issued by states, municipalities, or...