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Best Municipal Bond Funds for 2012: New York bi2540266 NEW YORK (TheStreet Ratings) -- Municipal bonds are a popular investment among retirees and high net-worth individuals seeking tax-free investment income. Depending on one's tax bracket, municipal bonds may be arithmetically superior to U.S. Treasury bonds, corporate bonds or mortgage-back securities. Assuming an investor comfortable the credit risk of a municipal bond or bond fund, the ..

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Top 5 Highest Yielding Municipal Bond Funds - Highest Yielding Zacks #1 Ranke bi2540266 Interest income exempt from federal income tax among the many distinct advantages that municipal bonds offer to investors. They also show very little correlation returns from equity..

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Zions Direct Announces Municipal Bond Auction Results through November 18, 2011 bi2540266 SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Zions Direct, the online broker-dealer that allows customers to purchase municipal bonds daily web-based auctions, announces weekly auction results. In auctions closed from November 14, 2011 to November 18, 2011, investors..

Nuveen Announces Investment Policy Changes and Mergers for Insured California bi2540266 CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nuveen Investments, a leading global provider of investment services to institutions as well as high-net-worth and affluent investors, today announced the Board of four insured California municipal bond closed-end has approved changes to each of the ? investment policies as well as the merger of the . These changes are subject to shareholder approval at ..

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Build America Bonds Still Attractive bi2540266 NEW YORK (TheStreet) - In the volatile markets of recent months, Build America Bonds have soared. Representing a small corner of the municipal market, the bonds deliver rich income. During the past year, the Eaton Vance Build America Bond, a mutual fund, returned 18%, outdoing 99% of bond and topping the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond index by 12 percentage points, according to ..

Aquila Investment Management Bolsters Kentucky Municipal Bond Fund Management bi2540266 NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Aquila Investment Management LLC continues to build investment team and has announced that Louisville-based Royden P. Durham has joined the company and been named Vice President and Co-Portfolio Manager of Churchill Tax-Free Fund of Kentucky, a..

Tax-free shopping doomed? bi2540266 WASHINGTON ? Bye-bye, tax-free shopping on Amazon.com?Amazon blessed that notion last week by throwing ?strong support? to a new U.S. Senate bill that would allow states to compel online vendors to collect sales taxes.It was the Internet retailer?s clearest endorsement of the federal legislation ? a stark contrast to sometimes-combative opposition to attempts by individual states to require ..

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