The article discusses investments in individual municipal bonds and municipal mutual funds as of March 2011. Data is given from the BondDesk Group LLC's transparency report which indicates retail investors were bullish in the individual bond market. Securities trading volume in California, New York,...
the interest payments are not taxed at the federal level. Some states do not tax municipal bonds, but others do. It is, not surprisingly, complicated. Seven states have no income tax at all, so bond interest is a moot point. Other states don't tax in-state bonds but do tax out-of-...
Take ownership of your bond investing strategy by choosing from a wide selection of different types of individual bonds. Open an AccountLog in to Research Bonds: opens in a new window What is a bond? When you buy a bond, you are a company's lender and the bond is like an IOU-a promi...
Buying Individual Bonds Or Bond ETFs / Funds So far, I've discussed strategies for buying individual treasury bonds and holding them to maturity. This way, you are guaranteed to get all your principal back and earn coupon payments in the meantime. However, you can also buy bond ETFs for mo...
The underlying security can be individual stocks, bonds, commodity futures contracts or even currencies. Let’s start with some definitions: Call This is the right to buy a stock at a specific price. There are also long- and short-calls. In a long call, the buyer pays a premium for the...
In recent weeks, traders from Moore Capital Management, the large New York hedge fund that manages some $15 billion, and from Oak Hill Advisors, the New York fund with nearly $13 billion in capital, have been snapping up municipal bonds, say people familiar with the matter. ...
Next is the process, or type of offering that issuers (the municipality) engage in to come to market. Municipal bonds come to market issuing debt in one of two ways, negotiated or competitive offerings. In competitive offerings, various broker-dealers compete to buy the debt being issued by ...
The article discusses the holding off on savings bonds purchasing due to low interest rates. Topics mentioned include the yielding rate of individual bonds (I-bonds) and series EE bonds, the comment of chief financial analyst Greg McBride on the fixed rate anemic component of I-bonds, and the...
There may be few or no good substitutes for the fund, such as a fund invested in municipal bonds exempt from tax in a particular state where the supply of bonds that qualify for this exemption is limited. The fund may be a newly-developed investment strategy investors are eager ...
corporate and municipal bond inventory at Fidelity, including Fidelity's $1 per bond markup for online trades vs. the prices offered online for the same bonds from the three brokers, then averaging the differences of the financial services firms. The analysis included investment grade corporate and...