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Investors seeking the maximum tax benefit on their municipal bond income should move to Puerto Rico, because the commonwealth levies the highest personal and corporate income tax rates in the [...]

Monthly municipal bond volume continued its rapid downward spiral in February as issuance plunged 60 percent to $6.52 billion, the lowest monthly total since April 1988. In February 1994, new-issue [...]

The decline in monthly municipal bond volume accelerated in August, with new issues plunging 56%, to $11.29 billion from $25.51 billion in August 1993, according to figures obtained from Securities [...]

New-issue bond volume continued spiraling downward with July issuance plunging 51% to $12.04 billion from $24.77 billion a year ago, according to information from Securities Data Co.'s data base, Only [...]

New-issue municipal bond volume fell to the lowest semiannual level in three years in the first half of this year, plunging almost 40% to $91.11 billion on 5,687 issues from [...]

New issue long-term municipal bond volume continued to take a pounding, dropping to $89.18 billion in the first half of 1994, down 40% from $149.13 billion a year ago, according [...]

New-issue volume continued to roll downhill in May, dropping the year-to-date total by 38% from a year ago, to $72.91 billion from $118.15 billion, according to information from Securities Data [...]

New bond sales plummeted 58% in April, to $9.28 billion, as a vicious bear market forced refunding issuers to flee and kept most other issuers at bay. Bond yields jumped [...]

Municipal bond sales tumbled 26% in the first quarter of 1994, as most large issuers ran out of bonds to refund and interest rates took a sudden turn for the [...]

Surging interest rates pushed new-issue sales of municipal bonds lower for a third consecutive month in March, to $15.94 billion, according to information from Securities Data Co.'s data base. That [...]

Steep drops in refundings and negotiated deals sent municipal bond volume spiraling down 28% in February, to $13.62 billion from $19.02 billion a year earlier, according to figures obtained from [...]

Fueled by a steep drop in negotiated deals, municipal bond volume for the first month of 1994 tumbled 20% to $14.69 billion from January 1993's $18.42 billion. However, last month [...]

Adrop in bond yields that neared 100 basis points gave large issuers all the impetus they needed to rid themselves of high coupon debt last year and brought new-issue volume [...]

Municipal bond sales faltered in November's chilly market conditions, but still remained well above 1992 levels for the year, according to data extracted by The Bond Buyer from Securities Data [...]

Voters went for the very big and the very small in municipal bond elections yesterday - and when the smoke cleared, they approved $5.35 billion, or 74%, of the $7.23 [...]

Overcoming a sudden sluggishness, the municipal bond market managed last month to reach a single-year record for new bond sales of $242.45 billion, according to data compiled from the data [...]

Reflecting the off-year election and the public's growing resentment of heavy debt burdens, only $6.04 billion of bond proposals will be on state and local ballots tomorrow -- the lowest [...]

Long-term municipal bond sales for 1993 approached the $200 billion mark last month, as another decline in interest rates spurred a late-month surge in refundings. State and local governments sold [...]

Surging new-issue municipal bond sales were fed by relentless refunding volume and rose to a new record for the first seven months of 1993, rising 29% to $169.99 billion from [...]

Driven by large issuers taking advantage of low interest rates, municipal bonds continued to sell at record levels in April and raised the year-to-date total to $85.86 billion, up 25% [...]

Advance refundings drove the municipal market to record heights in the first quarter, as large issuers took advantage of low interest rates to refinance high-yield debt sold in the early [...]

Another monthly bond volume record was smashed last month, when new issues edged 2% higher from the year-ago period to $16.37 billion, according to preliminary figures from Securities Data Co. [...]

A record high for January municipal bond volume was set, last month, with long-term volume tallied at $16.9 billion, according to figures complied by Securities Data Co. This is an [...]

Voters ended a two-year Election Day trend of rejecting ballot bonds with an Overwhelming thumbs-up on Tuesday to this year's proposals. Around the nation, voters approved $7.3 billion of $11.73 [...]

New-issue municipal bond volume continued to surge through the first 10 months of 1992, rising 43% to $191.5 billion from $133.55 billion in the same period of 1991, according to [...]

Voters authorized 70% of the tax-exempt bonds on ballots across the country yesterday, as approval for a handful of giant issues offset the rejection of dozens of smaller proposals by [...]

Low interest rates continued to make the summe sizzle in the municipal bond market, with bond sales jumping 38% in August, to $15.62 billion from $11.29 billion the year before, [...]

Bolstered by low interest rates, municipal bond volume continued to rise at an impressive rate through May, rising 18% to $55.69 billion from $47.12 billion a year ago, led by [...]

NEW YORK -- The American Banker today for the first time publishes a survey of what it calls the Rainbow Banks in America. These are the 105 commercial banks that [...]

NEW YORK -- Citibank NA, New York, retained its No. 1 ranking among commercial banks in total capital funds, with $5.9 billion at yearend 1983, up 8% from a year [...]

NEW YORK -- Asset growth of the top 200 bank holding companies in the United States was almost halved in 1983, despite the fact that more than 100 of these [...]

NEW YORK -- For the third consecutive year, in 1983 credit union holiday club deposits grew at a considerably faster pace than similar deposits at other financial institutions. This is [...]

NEW YORK -- If all the deposits of the 100 smallest insured commercial banks were added together, they would total $151.7 million -- an amount that would rank a single [...]

Yields on The Bond Buyer's weekly indexes dipped modestly this week as lack of supply and a slightly more robust Treasury market continued to keep tax-exempt afloat. The 20-bond index [...]

Monthly municipal bond volume continued its downward trek in January as long-term bond issuance plunged 58% from year-earlier levels, to $7.24 billion from $17.21 billion, according to figures obtained from [...]

Wednesday's rally, yields on The Bond Buyer's indexes remained in a holding pattern, little changed from a week ago. The 20-bond and 11-bond indexes of general obligation yields were both [...]

Uncertainly over where inflation is headed, coupled with heavy fund selling, pushed The Bond Buyer's indexes higher this week. The rise reversed four weeks of declines. The 20-bond and 11-bond [...]

The Bond Buyer's indexes took a tumble this week as the Federal Reserve Board's tighter monetary policy presented the markets with reasons for optimism. The 20-bond index of general obligation [...]

Yields on The Bond Buyer's tax-exempt bond indexes soared to the highest levels in 17 months this week, although a three-day rally appears to have halted the downward spiral of [...]

The yield on The Bond Buyer's 20-bond general obligation index jumped the 6% barrier for the first time in 15 months as sellers swamped a demoralized market bereft of buyers. [...]

A surge in refunding deals last year pushed municipal bond new-issue volume to a record $289.86 billion, a 23% increase over 1992's $235.01 billion, according to information from Securities Data [...]

Refundings finally began to cool down slightly last month, but total long-term municipal bond sales for 1993 continued to grow at a heated pace. State and local governments sold $220.02 [...]

Sales of new municipal bonds jumped 27% in this year's first half, to an all-time high of $144.76 billion from $113.76 billion in the first six months of 1992, according [...]

The municipal bond market got off to its fastest start ever in the first quarter of 1993, as issuers took advantage of the lowest interest rates in 15 years to [...]