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Bond Bits: The Big Board
The more information, the better. At least that is the thinking behind the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's launch of a system requiring that price information for all muni bond trades be available for the market within 15 minutes of a trade. Until this recent change, prices were available the day after a trade.
Increased transparency is expected to boost confidence in the fairness of what has previously been a fairly opaque market. Making the muni market more attractive to retail investors could lower the cost of capital to issuers in the long run.
For state and local issuers, price transparency is expected to provide more information on the way their bonds trade both initially and in the secondary market, which could ultimately give them more power when negotiating with underwriters on pricing bonds.
Issuers and investors can access municipal bond pricing information at www.investinginbonds.com, as well as www.bondbuyer.com and several other Web sites.
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