[Business Wire] - NEW YORK----BlackRock Advisors, LLC announced today that the Board of Directors of each of BlackRock Apex Municipal Fund, Inc. and BlackRock MuniAssets Fund, Inc. approved the reorganization of the Funds, with MUA being the surviving Fund .
[Business Wire] - NEW YORK----BlackRock, Inc. today announced that quarter-end portfolio data for its closed-end funds, as of June 30, 2010, is now available to the public on BlackRock?s website at www.blackrock.com.
BlackRock Advisors, LLC announced today that the Board of Directors of each of BlackRock Apex Municipal Fund, Inc. (NYSE:APX) and BlackRock MuniAssets Fund, Inc. (NYSE:MUA) (each a ?Fund? and 2010 09 02 19:03
Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the ?Funds?) announced distributions today as detailed below. Several of the Funds announced dividend increases. These dividend increases take into account each 2010 09 01 20:43
BlackRock, Inc. today announced that quarter-end portfolio data for its closed-end funds, as of June 30, 2010, is now available to the public on BlackRock?s website at www.blackrock.com. About 2010 08 30 19:33
Certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the ?Funds?) announced distributions today as detailed below. Two of the Funds announced dividend adjustments this month. BlackRock S&P Quality Rankings 2010 08 02 18:33
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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