Archive for February, 2008

Re-Listing Houses

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

I have been looking at some houses recently. In my area (San Francisco bay area), houses are sitting longer in the market. I noticed that several houses, upon reaching 60 ~ 70 days in the market were re-listed. The ironic thing is that some listing agents would add “Hot listing! This house would not last […]

More municipal reset bond auction failures?

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

It sure looks like there are more municipal reset bond auction failures today. Shown below are today’s auction results (as given by Fidelity) for California:

Some of the issues are resetting at more than 10%!
Update: After this post was made, Bloomberg’s posted an article on this issue [LINK].

Taxable MMF now a better deal than muni MMF

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Just a quick note on money market fund (MMF) yields. Ever since the two rate cuts last month, MMF yields have been dropping daily as the new rates get factored in.
When I checked this morning, the gross compounded yields, and the after-tax* yields for me, are as follows

VG Prime MMF (VMMXX) : 4.13%, 2.35%
VG Treasury […]