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Municipal bonds perspectives- Where do We Go From Here

edited April 2020 in Other Investing

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4340466-municipal-bond-perspective-where-go-from

/where do We Go From Here

Given the financial strength of the sector, we believe airports have the requisite resources to weather a decline in air travel over the next several months.
If investment markets do not recover from recent declines before fiscal year-end (mostly June 30), schools will see significant investment losses in fiscal year 2020.
We expect that sales taxes and income taxes will experience immediate shocks as a result of social distancing and demand-side pressures.
As the COVID-19 pandemic evolved during the first quarter, the municipal bond market experienced one of its most volatile periods in years. Here, the Franklin Municipal Bond Department shares how they plan to navigate the market, which they think is likely to show signs of distress and elevated volatility for some time
elieve levels of municipal market volatility are likely to remain elevated over the next few months, and potentially longer. However, our seasoned team of analysts and portfolio managers have experienced difficult market periods in the past, and we are using that collective knowledge to navigate through this panic as well./

many municipals may end up bankrupted by late/summer fall unless market do rebounds and folks are less worried/install more monies into system/buying more. I think we are slowly getting there. The vanguard advisors that we talked to still recommends balance holdings of different products/vehicles and perhaps may lessen risks just in case another crash /W form recovery takes place

we are still holding to our munis and corp porfolios, have not buy nor added recently.

We did have one bond near bankruptcy past few weeks but we are still holding on since it did slightly recovered recently [RIG oil platforms]

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  • Hi @johnN. Thanks for posting this piece on municipals. The only loser I have so far this month is my muni fund. Everthing else is up. I was going to add some money to it; but, after reading this article I'll ride for a while longer as muni's might get even cheaper. Skeet
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