A peculiarity of the tax code gives fund investors an advantage over bond investors. Say a bond comes out at par and sinks to 90 cents on the dollar as rates rise. If you buy at 90 and redeem at 100, ...

if you buy a muni issued by your home state. The advantages of buying highly rated municipal bonds — which finance public works like building or improving roads, bridges and transit systems ...

We haven't seen yield like this in a really long time," Goldman Sachs' Sylvia Yeh says of the municipal bond market.

If you assume that top-rate taxpayers will sooner or later wake up to this opportunity and bid up the price of municipal bonds, the rest of us could figure that if we buy now, we can sell to them ...

Things have gotten crazy in the normally staid world of municipal bonds. Concern that munis might lose their crucial tax-exempt status as part of the budget process has been an unpleasant backdrop ...

By Amy O’Leary Guest Opinion What if your town instantly lost the ability to cost-effectively build or fix its roads and ...