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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Municipal bond activity returns to a near-normal level as a slew of deals heads into the market, led by New York and California issuers.
July 6 -
Municipals remained stronger into the close on Thursday as the minutes from the last Federal Reserve meeting were released.
July 5 -
A sluggish and somewhat skittish tone kicked off the post-July 4th trading on Thursday.
By Chip BarnettJuly 5 -
Muni finished stronger Tuesday in an abbreviated trading session. Markets are closed Wednesday and trading will resume on Thursday.
By Chip BarnettJuly 3 -
Three rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court this term will have a lasting impact on the finances of many municipal bond issuers, Fiera Capital says.
By Chip BarnettJuly 2 -
Municipal volume isn't expected to meet growing demand in the remainder of 2018.
July 2 -
The municipal market will see only $74 million of deals in a holiday-shortened week, raising demand for supply the week after.
June 29 -
Ipreo estimates weekly bond volume at $73.8 million, consisting only of competitive sales and no negotiated deals.
By Chip BarnettJune 29 -
Municipal market activity remained quiet Thursday afternoon wrapping up a week in which investors snapped up some large new issues.
June 28 -
New York paper continued to be in high demand in front of the July 1 redemption date, according to a market source.
June 28