Christine Albano is a reporter in the Investor’s & Investing beat, which she has covered for the past two decades. She has a wide range of buy side sources in the municipal market and has covered trends affecting retail investors, institutions, municipal mutual funds, tax-exempt money market funds, and the high-yield beat. She has also written about some of the industry’s biggest issues, such as historic defaults in Orange County, Calif., Puerto Rico, and Jefferson County, Ala., as well as the collapse of the variable-rate demand market. In addition, she reported on the subsequent 2008 financial crisis, and the death of municipal bond pioneer Jim Lebenthal. She provided next day coverage of the impact on the municipal bond market of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, and recently interviewed The Vanguard Group Inc. founder, former chief executive officer, and investment guru John C. Bogle about the best investing advice for the municipal market.
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Claire Cohen was a legendary municipal bond analyst who took countless young analysts under her wing and developed many public finance strategies that will be considered innovative for years to come.
February 7 -
The UST selloff and rate fears spooked investors in January, but experts predict more opportunity and a stronger tone for munis in the remainder of the first quarter.
February 3 -
Municipal volume is estimated at a lean $558.8 million with $494.7 million of negotiated deals and $64.2 million on the competitive slate. Thirty-day visible supply is at $3.17 billion.
By Lynne FunkDecember 17 -
Municipal yield curves were little changed for the seventh straight session while Refinitiv Lipper reported the 40th week of inflows into municipal bond mutual funds, with high-yield seeing a large increase week over week.
By Lynne FunkDecember 9 -
Month over month, the municipal market is in a much better position, as heavy demand and flows continue to drive it.
By Lynne FunkNovember 18 -
While opportunities exist, investors should still monitor economic and market developments as they search for value in the final weeks of the year, experts said.
November 17 -
Municipals were quiet on Monday following Friday's rally and ahead of the $9.6 billion estimated to be priced early in the week before the Veterans Day holiday close Thursday. Connecticut priced for retail.
November 8 -
The long end of the municipal curve rallied under a backdrop of stronger-than-expected October jobs data and upward revesions to the prior two months ahead of the arrival of $9.6 billion next week.
November 5 -
Amid a flattening municipal yield curve and inversion of the Treasury market, new issues fared better than the secondary on Thursday as participants prepared for month end.
October 28 -
The Investment Company Institute reported $385 million of inflows while ETFs fell to $124 million.
October 20