Bonds

Bank of America swung to a profit from a year-earlier loss in the third quarter, beating Wall Street expectations as provisions for credit losses fell.

A new analysis suggests ratings firm S&P may have gone back to its pre-crisis ways faster than its peers.

BofA will pay MBIA $1.6 billion to to settle a long legal battle over mortgage putbacks. As part of the agreement the banking giant will also glean the ability to buy 4.9% of MBIA. 

The ratings firm's earnings rose 8.6% as it continued to benefit from strong corporate-finance results.

The New-York based company posted a 10% jump in net income as investors increasingly turned to the money manager's higher-fee stock funds.

The exchange agreed to pay $750 million in cash to acquire the eSpeed platform from BGC Partners. 

The exchange agreed to pay $750 million in cash to acquire the eSpeed platform from BGC Partners. 

A quick flip through a newspaper or TV channels and Maine voters may think that the only thing on the ballot next week is the combative three-way race for governor.

Markets are taking a pause from basing every move on the latest rhetoric out of the Fed regarding the timing of the first interest rate hike in nearly a decade.

Safety trade underway as 10-Year yield hits lowest level since February 2015.

A group of U.S. bondholders is offering $2 billion to help boost the finances and infrastructure of Puerto Rico's power company amid fears it will go bankrupt.

A federal judge ruled late Friday that a Puerto Rico debt-restructuring law that aims to protect the government from bankruptcy and make public corporations self-sufficient is unconstitutional.

The U.S. stock market is opening sharply lower following disappointing corporate earnings and weak economic news.

Fitch Ratings has downgraded $13.4 billion worth of Puerto Rico's general obligation bonds as well as bonds issued by the island's water and sewer company.

As we look for the big potential stories for 2014, Japan one again comes to the forefront. 

Blackstone and State Street are teaming up to offer the first actively managed senior loan ETF for high-yield investors.

During an interview on the FOX Business Network’s The Intelligence Report with Trish Regan, legendary bond investor Bill Gross pointed out the different facets of a lower interest rate environment.

James Lebenthal, the U.S. municipal bond market's biggest champion and most eloquent spokesman, died following a heart attack at age 86, his daughter said on Friday.

The last thing the Fed wants to do is pull back its stimulus only to have to reverse course. More likely, the Fed is happy to take an extra month or two before it begins curtailing its bond purchases to ensure the slow progress in the labor market is sustainable.

Standard & Poor's cut the Netherlands' credit rating on Friday, leaving just three eurozone countries with the gold standard rating.