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• Municipal Bonds
  Municipal bonds are bonds issued or backed by state and/or local governments to finance a variety of public improvement projects. When you invest in municipal bonds, you are loaning money to these issuers who in turn pay you a regular interest income. Your investment may help fund the building of a bridge that assists the flow of local traffic, a new school, or other enhancements to your community.
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• Municipal Bond Offerings
  What does municipal bond offerings mean? Municipal bond offerings refer to the act of issuing municipal bonds by state, cities, towns or municipalities. When a state, city, town or municipality needs to raise money for a project, it can issue bonds to the public or make municipal bond offerings.
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• Municipal Bond Rates
  Like any other bonds, when buying municipal bonds, you will have to consider the municipal bond rates. Some municipal bond rates are better than others. However, when considering and comparing municipal bond rates to other bond rates, you should take into account the tax benefits of municipal bonds.
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• Municipal Bond Interest Rates
  The municipal bond interest rates are also called the coupon rates. Municipal bond interest rates are usually what people look for when buying municipal bonds. However, bear in mind that the highest municipal bond interest rates does not mean the best investment or the highest municipal bond yields.
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• Municipal Bond Yields
  Municipal bond yields are a little more complicated to calculate than corporate bond yields. Below are different municipal bond yields explained with examples. Bear in mind that because of the tax benefits of municipal bonds, municipal bond yields will always be less than the equivalent corporate bond yields.
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• Tax Equivalent Yield
  To compare the municipal bond yields and corporate bond yields, you need to work out the tax equivalent yield of the municipal bond. The tax equivalent yield calculation of a municipal bond is useful when an investor wants to compare a municipal bond to a corporate bond to see which bond has higher yield and is therefore a better investment.
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• General Obligation Bonds
  General obligation bonds are common municipal bonds. General obligation bonds are sometimes called general obligation issues or GOs. Many investors invest in general obligation bonds without even knowing that they are general obligation bonds or general obligation issues.
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• Municipal Notes
  Most people have heard of municipal bonds but few people have heard of municipal notes. Municipal notes are shorter term investments than municipal bonds. In the same way there are municipal bond ratings, there are municipal note ratings published by bond rating agencies to help investors decide which municipal notes are good investments for them.
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