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...rates to roll out a record number of munis. In 2002, $430 billion of munis were sold, according to the Bond Market Association, the most ever in a single year--until 2003, that is, when $452 billion worth hit the market. That flood of paper has helped keep muni yields high relative to Treasuries and has provided a nice windfall for yield-seeking investors...
While that spread has narrowed since last year, the average 10year general-obligation AAA-rated muni still yields 88% of what the 10-year Treasury note does. Since investors generally don't pay federal tax on interest from munis (or state or local tax when they live in the issuing state or municipality), that muni's recent 3.69% yield feels like 5.13% to a taxpayer in the 28% bracket, compared with the taxable Tnote's 4.20%. And that's before taking into account any exemption from state and local tax. "Yields are still cheap compared to Treasuries'," says Zane Brown...
...vintage, and less amusing, question of whether homosexuality is, as the Los Angeles Times asked poll respondents this past week, “against God’s will.” (Six in 10 said it was). To use Harvard terms to describe this finding might yield, as one contrarian Salient editor emeritus put it in a Salient e-mail list posting, a headline along the lines of: “Poll: Most Americans are anti-gay bigots...
...have been killed in Iraq over the past 12 days. The fighting in Fallujah has ebbed since Sunday because of a cease-fire brokered between the Marines and the insurgents by Iraqi intermediaries - a cease-fire that U.S. commanders on the ground are not particularly confident will hold, or yield the objective of securing the surrender of the insurgents responsible...
...early stage of an up cycle, and business is taking off. We own Citigroup, Goldman, Sachs and Morgan Stanley. The other major theme we have is to own the companies that supply emerging markets, and that means both energy and agriculture. British Petroleum has a 4% yield. It has a big interest in a major oil company in Russia that is well positioned to supply China directly. The play in U.S. agriculture is in the early stage. The classic big-cap player is Deere. As a result of drought and stronger demand, carry-overs of corn and soybeans...