Municipal bond market locking up
Bob Morris @ Mar 1st 2008 11:07 - Category: Credit crisis
The damage from the frozen auction rate security market is spreading to municipal bonds in general. Hedge funds were borrowing short-term to go long-term and now that short term money is frozen or available. Hello margin calls and forced selling, which of course just speeds up the death spiral.
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