Category: News

The Impact of Remote Workers on America’s Downtowns

The decline in commuters has le to falling prices for downtown investments and strains on cities’ finances. Suburban areas are emerging as winners.

BondView Partners with Exchange Data International to Provide Reference Data for Municipal Bonds

New York, May 3, 2022 – BondView, the leading provider of municipal bond portfolio analysis and market data, today announced a partnership between its Municipal Bond Reference Data Service (RDS)…

The Russian Stock Exchange Since Trading Resumed – with significant restrictions

Energy and metals companies led a surge in Russian stocks on Thursday as trading resumed after nearly a month’s halt, reflecting soaring global prices for oil, gas, and other commodities…

WSJ’s Matt Wirz On Coronavirus Shutdown Stinging  New Jersey Mall’s Bondholders

New Jersey’s  American Dream Mall has been shut since March, and mutual funds that bought municipal bonds backing its construction have since taken hundreds of millions of dollars in paper…

Bond Fund ‘Blow-Ups’ Spark New SEC Rules:

BondView’s CEO Robert Kane, was quoted in  “Ignites” regarding bond fund liquidity problems related to the COVID-19 economic impact.  When the liquidity in fixed-income markets “dried up” in mid-March 2020, …

BondView Masters the Evaluated Pricing Business for Municipal Bonds and Achieves Near-Perfect Accuracy Over 8-Year History

ROSLYN HEIGHTS, N.Y., Aug. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — BondView’s municipal bond price estimates were proven to have an accuracy rate of 99.45% compared to 10,000 bond prices used within an…

Detroit’s Official Bankruptcy Filing

Detroit filed for federal bankruptcy protection after years of decline. Here is the actual official Detroit Bankruptcy  filing.

Alien (Pensions) Verse Predators (Muni Bondholders)

The Stockton, CA. example could encourage cities to view bankruptcy as something other than a last resort. Bond-holders, taxpayers and government officials throughout the country are perplexed and angered will by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein’s ruling to pursue a plan that stiffs its bond-holders.

More Bond Defaults Starting To Hit As Taxpayers Pay The Tab

The painful truth is that as debt increases, so do the risks it will be politically, economically and financially worthwhile for borrowers to walk away from paying back their loans…

Will Silicon Valley Melt Down?

Ironically in many cities taxes are going up regardless of home prices going rising or falling. The annual operation costs that towns must pay for schools, police, fire and other…