Auction Rate Municipal Bonds Headlines

Zions Direct Announces Corporate Bond Auction Results Through February 3, 2012

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --   Zions Direct , the online broker-dealer that allows its customers to purchase corporate bonds in its daily web-based auctions, announces its weekly auction ...

Zions Direct Announces FDIC-Insured CD Auction Results Through February 7, 2012

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --  Zions Direct , the online broker-dealer that allows its customers to purchase FDIC – insured Certificates of Deposit in its daily web-based auctions, announces ...

Zions Direct Announces Corporate Bond Auction Results through January 27, 2012

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --  Zions Direct , the online broker-dealer that allows its customers to purchase corporate bonds in its daily web-based auctions, announces its weekly auction ...

Banks Have Interest Rate Swapped $20 Billion From Taxpayer Pockets

As we came out of the housing crash rubble, one mini-narrative that emerged on the left was the rottenness of interest-rate swap deals. To pay for sizable projects, cities shook hands with big Wall Street banks for auction-rate bonds--a city would pay a fixed rate, while the banks would pay floating rates. And so, a bunch of projects lifted off the ground. Then the economy plunged, and the ...

Zions Direct Announces Corporate Bond Auction Results Through January 6, 2012

SALT LAKE CITY , Jan. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --  Zions Direct , the online broker-dealer that allows its customers to purchase corporate bonds in its daily web-based auctions, announces its weekly auction ...