NEW YORK----BlackRock, Inc. today announced that it released data for its closed-end municipal funds for January 2010. This information can be found in the ?Closed-End Funds? section of www.blackrock.com.
NEW YORK----BlackRock, Inc. today announced that quarter-end portfolio data for its closed-end funds, as of December 31, 2009, is now available. The information is available on BlackRock?s website at www.blackrock.com.
NEW YORK----Certain BlackRock closed-end funds announced distributions today as detailed below. Municipal Funds: Declaration- 2/1/2010 Ex-Date- 2/10/2010 Record- 2/12/2010 Payable- 3/1/2010 National Funds Ticker Dividend Change FromPriorDividend BlackRock Apex Municipal Fund, Inc.
NEW YORK----BlackRock, Inc. today announced that it released data for its closed-end municipal funds for November 2009. This information can be found in the ?Closed-End Funds? section of www.blackrock.com.
Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the ?Funds?) announced distributions today as detailed below. Several of the municipal Funds announced dividend increases. The dividend increases take into 2010 03 01 18:15
BlackRock, Inc. today announced that it released data for its closed-end municipal funds for January 2010. This information can be found in the ?Closed-End Funds? section of www.blackrock.com. About 2010 02 26 17:35
BlackRock, Inc. today announced that quarter-end portfolio data for its closed-end funds, as of December 31, 2009, is now available. The information is available on BlackRock?s website at 2010 02 22 17:30
BlackRock, Inc. today announced that it released data for its closed-end municipal funds for December 2009. This information can be found in the ?Closed-End Funds? section of www.blackrock.com. 2010 01 28 18:01
BlackRock, Inc. today announced that it released data for its closed-end municipal funds for November 2009. This information can be found in the ?Closed-End Funds? section of www.blackrock.com. 2009 12 11 17:30
Somehow I missed this but that doesn’t mean anything, I miss a lot of things. So if you’re up to speed on the government providing reinsurance for municipal bonds then skip this post.
If not, here is a little blurb I found on Fox Business:
In the fourth quarter of 2008, the municipal bond market collapsed along with the rest of the credit markets. Lately there has been a small revival. Still, depressed bond prices and wide spread credit concerns leave open big opportunities for investors in the new issue and secondary market, if you know where to look.
Long maturity tax exempts on average now yield 130% of comparable Treasury bonds and that’s before the exemption benefit. A portion of that differential may be attributed to what many have termed artificially low Treasury rates. Not that long ago, exempt yields averaged 75% of...
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