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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Investors will see nearly $10 billion of weekly bond volume in a calendar composed of $6.4 billion of negotiated deals and $3.4 billion of competitive sales.
June 7 -
Weekly bond volume is forecast to hit $6.99 billion in a calendar composed of $4.36 billion of negotiated deals and $2.63 billion of competitive sales.
May 31 -
Munis are termed rich, but taxables still shine.
By Chip BarnettMay 28 -
The municipal bond market saw the largest Garvee bond deal so far hit the screens on Thursday.
By Chip BarnettMay 23 -
Scarce high-yield supply is creating challenges for muni fund managers.
May 9 -
The 30-day net supply is now at negative $17.2 billion, a muni strategist said on Monday.
By Chip BarnettMay 6 -
On the day the Federal Reserve left rates unchanged, Oregon's Metro sold taxable GOs.
By Chip BarnettMay 1 -
The Philadelphia deal saw robust demand from muni bond buyers on Tuesday.
By Chip BarnettApril 30 -
Municipal bond buyers will be seeing more than $5 billion of supply headed into the market.
By Chip BarnettApril 26 -
Municipal bond buyers saw the last of the week’s new issues come to market on Thursday with action dominated by several large California water issuers.
By Chip BarnettApril 25