Bonds

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.

The market appears to be sensing a softening in growth momentum as the first few March data points have printed on the lighter side of expectations. 

Two insurance companies that guaranteed Detroit’s voter-approved general obligation bonds have sued the city.

In the wake of Fiat's deal to take full control of Chrysler, S&P upgraded the U.S. auto maker's credit rating to 'BB-' from 'B+.' 

S&P sliced Russia's outlook to 'negative' amid worries about potential capital outflow and other issues resulting from its annexation of Crimea. 

Portugal’s move to rescue its No. 2 bank gave investors renewed faith in the country’s banking sector … but shareholders and junior bondholders aren’t rejoicing.

A Chinese solar-cell manufacturer defaulted on its bond interest payments, marking the Asian country’s first onshore default and raising fears about explosive credit growth.

Puerto Rico’s proposal to raise $3 billion through a bond sale to keep the debt-addled Caribbean island afloat has raised questions over who will be first in line to get repaid should it run out of money.

Puerto Rico’s proposal to raise $3 billion through a bond sale to keep the debt-addled Caribbean island afloat has raised questions over who will be first in line to get repaid should it run out of money.

The $6.4 billion of outflows from emerging market equity funds marks the largest cash exodus from these funds since August 2011.

A portfolio with a heavy bond weighting may not cut it for investors in 2016.....

Wall Street concern is growing about a collapse in emerging market funds, once a darling of investors chasing their high yields in a world of near zero interest rates.

The final ingredient in the recipe that creates financial bubbles is panic among investment fund managers that they’re missing out on the gravy train.

Well, until this week we were staying long because the trend was up. And now? Not so much.

Learn more about the European Central Bank's new bond-buying program and what the euro's devaluation means for you as a U.S. consumer and investor.

For most of us, investments fall into two simple categories: stocks or bonds.

Learn everything you need to know about investing in convertible bonds, the hybrid security that can literally be a bond and a stock.

Martin Whitman has spent over four decades buying unloved stocks and bonds, usually profiting as they rose in value.