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Municipal Bond News & Research

• Bondheads - Daily collection of key articles on the bond market from a wide variety of news sources.
• Electronic Municipal Market Acess - The Electronic Municipal Market Access system, or EMMA, is a comprehensive, centralized on-line source for free access to official statements, advance refunding documents and real-time trade price information on municipal securities. Emma is provided by the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB).
• Investing in Bonds (Bond Market Association site) - FINRA site includes municipal bond market prices applying to the previous day. Also educational info.
• The Bond Buyer - Financial newspaper focused primarily on the municipal bond market and municipal finance.
• Fitch - Nationally recognized rating agency
• Griffin Kubik Stephens & Thompson Inc - Dealer specializing in debt securities, including municipal bonds, U.S. Treasury debt, agencies, and mortgage-backed securities. Site provides municipal and bond market research.
• SEC: Information for Municipal Markets - Entry point to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Municipal Securities information pertaining to municipal markets, including current events, market news, continuing disclosure and Rule 15c2-12
• Smith’s Research and Ratings Review - Weekly municipal bond newsletter with a special emphasis on municipal bond reseach, municipal bond credit, bond insurance and rating agency matters.
• Standard & Poor’s - Nationally recognized bond rating service.
• Thomson Municipal Market Monitor (TM3)
• A.G. Edwards - Public research site for A.G. Edwards, a securities dealer. Bonds section has limited number of research reports.
• Beige Book (The) - Beige Book (The), report published by the Federal Reserve Board eight times a year

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• Bloomberg News - Financial news. Municipal News found in Markets Section under Municipal Bonds. (Bloomberg is also a NRMSIR.)
• Bonds Online - Information, articles and data on the fixed income market.
• Briefing.com - Site provides timely, intelligent analysis on US Stock and US fixed income markets. Free and subscription.
• California Municipal Statistics, Inc - California debt statistics and financial reports
• Corporate Financials Online - News on corporations and investor-owned companies.
• First Southwest Securities - Investment dealer site provides public finance commentary and a newsletter with articles covering various municipal market issues.
• Flow of Funds — State & Local Debt Outstanding - Data from Federal Reserve on State and Local Debt Outstanding, including holders of debt. See Flow of Funds (detailed report)
• FMS Bonds - Municipal bond dealer specialists, including municipal bond research commentary
• GASB Statement 34 - Info on new governmental accounting rules and list of governmental financial reports in compliance with GASB Statement 34.
• Internal Revenue Service - Info for Tax Exempt Community - IRS — information for the Tax Exempt Community, including tax-exempt municipal bonds.
• IRS Tax-exempt Bond Statistics - Statistical Tables produced by the IRS relating to tax-exempt governmental (municipal) bond volume, including private activity issues.
• McDonnell Investment Management - Fixed Income and Municipal Bond Strategy and Commentary.
• Merrill Lynch Research - Merrill Lynch market research comments, including economic and fixed income commentary.
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Municipal Finance

• National Conference of State Legislatures - National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) provides comprehensive content on wide variety of public policy and fiscal issues affecting state governments, including ballot initiatives.
• The Bond Buyer - Financial newspaper focused primarily on the municipal bond market and municipal finance.
• Council of State Governments - Council of State Governments. Provides timely news on wide variety of state issues in the States News section.
• Fiscal Survey of States - National Governors Association and National Association of State Budget Officers publishes its annual Fiscal Survey of the States analysis of state financial condition. Publications listing recent annual reports.
• Rockefeller Institute of Government - The public policy arm of the State University of New York at Albany. Special focus on state government finance.
• State Government Finances - State Government Finances gathered by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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