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Municipal Bond

August 19, 2010 Mall Of America To Open Luxury Hotel With Stimulus Money | C Send by cheapoair Finally, the Mall of America will get a long anticipated luxury hotel with the assistance of a municipal bond offering made possible with federal stimulus money. Needless to say, the issue is controversial. [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 19, 2010 New Jersey Has First State Government To Be Charged With ... Posted by Hellen Popovich The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday charged the state government with securities fraud for misrepresenting and failing to disclose to investors in $26 billion dollars worth of municipal bond offerings that it was [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 18, 2010 Are Construction Loans The Next Thing To Blow Up? | The Market Traders Send by Slash Latest News on Municipal Bonds. No More Sweet Loans For Bell Officials As City Could Default On $35 Million Bond - LA Weekly (blog) Municipal Bond Reports: High Net Returns and Low Default Risk - CBS MoneyWatch.com (blog) [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 18, 2010 Corporate Bonds, Municipal Bonds, Treasuries At Record Low Yields ... Send by Michael Shedlock As investors search for yield anywhere and everywhere, bonds are trading in uncharted territory. Please consider Obama Wins Low Yield as Markets Shrink Aiding DeficitBond investors seeking top-rated securities face fewer alternatives to [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 18, 2010 Outlook For Municipal Bond Defaults ? Settlement On Largest May ... Send by marketmaker Carl Dincesen submits:The great recession continues to test the creditworthiness of issuers of municipal bonds. The stress has not yet reached its peak. When it does, in the next 18 months or so, the vast majority will have demonstrated [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 18, 2010 No More Sweet Loans For Bell Officials As City Could Default On $35 Million Bond Posted by Hellen Popovich Another aspect of the Bell city scandal unfolded this week at the Los Angeles Times reported that nearly $900,000 in municipal loans were given to former city manager Robert Rizzo, two City Counc [...] Continue reading "No More Sweet Loans For Bell Officials As City Could Default On $35 Million Bond" > Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 18, 2010 Buffett On Municipal Bond Risks My Money Blog Send by Jonathan When I wrote about investing in California municipal bonds in September 2009, the yield on the Vanguard California Intermediate-Term Tax-Exempt Fund (VCAIX) was 3.49% and exempt of both federal and CA state income taxes (avg maturity 7 [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 19, 2010 Impressed By High Send by istockAnalyst.com (press relea But one sector has held up really well: high-yield municipal bonds. I actually did a post on this a year ago and this space has been really interesting to [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 19, 2010 NewAmericaNow: U.S. Dollar Now Ripe For Catastrophic Devaluation Send by NewAmericaNow Some agencies still rate municipal debt very high, but they also rated subprime mortgages very high, and look what happened! No one in their right mind wants to touch municipal bonds today, and this will invariably lead to insolvency in [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 18, 2010 What Are Tax Free Municipal Bonds And How Can They Benefit You Send by Christopher Their are two types of municipal bonds, the first is general obligation bonds. These bonds are paid back on taxes that are paid by the tax payers. These bonds are for road, school, and hospital projects that need to be done in states. [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 19, 2010 Publisher: Just Released: "Income Security Of The Month" For ... Send by Albert Monthly Payments -- Most municipal bonds pay interest just twice a year. But since our "Income Security of the Month" holds several hundred bonds from across the United States, it's able to coordinate distributions and pay you monthly. [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 19, 2010 SEC Sues New Jersey ... US Treasury Next? Posted by Hellen Popovich Erik Gerding has a nice analysis of the SEC's lawsuit against NJ: According to the SEC release, New Jersey failed to disclose in 79 state bond offerings between 2001 and 2007 (totaling $26 billlion) that two public employee pension funds were underfunded. According to the SEC, the failure to disclos [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 20, 2010 Tax-Free Bonds & Bond Funds | Municipal Bond Rates Send by James Leitz Municipal bonds offer investors income that is tax-free, exempt from federal income tax. Municipal bond funds are the easiest way to invest in them, and not pay income taxes on the dividends generated from these bonds. [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 18, 2010 Berkowitz Bets On MBIA Survival As Financials Revive | Financial Aid Posted by Hellen Popovich while Fairholme's MBIA investment isn't dependent on the company restarting its municipal bond insurance underwriting, Berkowitz anticipates the company will again back municipal debt once it resolves a legal challenge over the split of [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 18, 2010 North Country Gazette Three Execs Indicted For Municipal Bond Fraud Send by North Country Gazette WASHINGTON?Three former financial services executives have been indicted for their participation in fraud schemes and conspiracies related to bidding for contracts for the investment of municipal bond proceeds and other municipal [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

August 18, 2010 Municipal Bonds Add Investment Muscle To Your Portfolio | Sierra ... Posted by Hellen Popovich Municipal bonds are issued by government entities to raise money for their individual projects. Instead of borrowing the money, a government is actually asking you to make an investment in them by providing the funds they need. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

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