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Whats Are Your Municipal Bonds Really Worth? Investors Can Now Find Out With BondView’s New Bond Price Check System.

Enter a CUSIP number in BondView’s online Price Check dashboard for a professional-quality pricing estimate on your bond of interest.

New York, NY (PRWEB) November 29, 2011

“Price check on aisle 10.” If Walmart carried municipal bonds, their market value would be clearly labeled on a price tag. But in the murky world of municipal bond trading, there is no centralized exchange, as there is for the stock market. As a result, accurate and timely pricing is largely unavailable for most investors. BondView fills the void of timely municipal bond pricing with its new Price Check tool, available for free at http://www.bondview.com/pricecheck.

Figuring out the right price at which to buy or sell a bond can be complicated. “In the municipal bond market, we often encounter investors accepting the wrong price for a bond. This is a real problem that has unsuspecting investors leaving money on the table, “ said Robert Kane, BondView’s founder and CEO. Since only 1% of all muni bonds trade on any given day, it is unlikely that the bond to be priced has recently traded. For the 99% of bonds that don’t trade, BondView’s technology evaluates the fair market value using industry standard accounting methods.

In contrast to the common industry practice of pricing multiple bonds based on similar credit ratings, BondView produces independent muni bond prices using its proprietary algorithm and real time market data. Legacy pricing practices often result in inaccuracies because they do not consider the unique features of a bond or its issuer– for example, the state in which the bond was issued. In reality, issuers come with their own credit risks and financial concerns, which translate to pricing differences in the marketplace.

BondView’s approach mitigates such inaccuracy by instead focusing on a bond’s market rating. Bonds are grouped according to certain factors, including state, sector, maturity, coupon and tax treatment. “The group’s trading and yield range serve as a proxy for the bond you want to price,” explained Kane. As a result, BondView updates prices for individual bonds in “real time and for real reasons.”

“BondView’s Price Check levels the playing field by offering free, independent, professional-quality pricing information and improving transparency for all investors,” said Kane. “Our special sauce is the reliability of our pricing.” BondView’s algorithms are calculated based on Financial Accounting Standards Board guidelines (Topic 820 formerly known as FAS 157) and have been back tested across its extensive repository of municipal bond data. “The result is dependable pricing for the entire municipal bond universe,” he said.    

The Price Check dashboard is both user-friendly and transparent. Investors can log on to check as many bond prices as they wish, or easily save a multi-bond Watchlist for ongoing use. Soon, BondView will also be available from within Microsoft Excel on a user’s own desktop. BondView’s Price check provides many unique indicators for a bond of interest, such as market sector, yield, liquidity and volatility ratings, stress testing, dealer spread, and a complete trading history; it also explains how these values are calculated. The dashboard presents this information in handy charts, including a “Rich or Cheap” gauge that compares your bond’s price to the trading range of thousands of similar bonds.

Like its muni bond and bond fund ratings, BondView’s Estimated Prices are powered by the company’s unique repository of 50,000 active state and local bond issuers across millions of municipal bonds. The BondView repository provides information on all individual municipal bonds, including a complete trading history, estimated current prices, yield curves, dealer trading ranges, and the company’s proprietary market ratings for each bond.

BondView is the leading investor advocate for municipal bonds. BondView, LLC provides municipal bond portfolio analysis and market data for investors and professionals. Our mission is to promote smart, informed decision making by municipal bond investors and their advisors. BondView is dedicated to providing timely and accurate real-world market data specific to municipal bonds and municipal bond funds. Its suite of tools and services continues to evolve. Interested investors can use the BondView Municipal Bond Price Check service at Bondview.

For more information contact: Robert Kane at BondView, LLC.

Telephone: 866-261-9533. news(at)bondview(dot)com , http://www.bondview.com.

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Leading Singapore CFD Provider Launches Android App

IG Markets, Singapore’s number one CFD provider for customer service

(PRWEB) September 29, 2011

IG Markets, Singapore’s number one CFD provider for customer service, unveiled its Android trading app on September 26, 2011. The app is available free of charge from the Android market and allows IG Markets’ clients to place CFD trades on a wide range of markets, as well as view their open positions and watchlists, access real-time balance information, generate a variety of charts and much more.

Prospective traders can also access live market data, as well as an account application process tailor-made for Android handsets.

Peter McDermott, Managing Director of IG Markets in Singapore said “this latest release is another example of our trademark customer service alongside innovative technology. The Android app is an addition to our existing suite of mobile trading apps, which include iPhone, BlackBerry and Nokia apps.”

In June 2011, IG Markets was Singapore’s first CFD provider to offer an iPhone App for DMA CFDs, which allows traders to view full market depth and liquidity as well as trade within the market spread.

“Our Android app gives clients a range of mobile functions equivalent to our award-winning trading platform, PureDeal, and is available across our extensive range of CFD markets, including forex, shares, stock indices, commodities and more,” Mr McDermott said.

“It is our commitment to give our clients the best possible CFD trading tools, regardless of whether they trade from an iPhone, Android, BlackBerry or browser.”

Android devices are the fastest growing handsets in the smartphone group in Southeast Asia, marketed as the region’s ‘most affordable’ smartphone option. In 2010, the sales of Android-based handsets in these markets rose from an average of USD500,000 a month in January to almost USD2 million a month in September, an increase of 400%.

About IG Markets

IG Markets specialises in providing CFDs, on over 7,000 global share CFDs, along with indices, forex, commodities, options, binaries and more. IG Markets is part of the IG Group, a UK FTSE 250 member with over 130,000 active clients worldwide. For further information about the Android release please call +65 6390 5118 or visit http://www.igmarkets.com.sg.

Remember that CFDs and forex are geared products and can result in losses that exceed your initial deposit. CFD trading may not be suitable for everyone, so please ensure that you fully understand the risks involved. Please consider our Risk Disclosure Statement before you enter into any transaction with us.

Investment Trends’ 2010 CFD & FX Report revealed IG Markets scored highest for overall customer satisfaction among Singapore’s CFD traders. The survey of nearly 8,000 investors, also revealed that IG Markets also received the highest scores in the CFD industry for value for money, spreads, margin requirements, easy-to-use platform, charting, efficiency of taking trades, email and telephone customer service, reporting of positions and transactions, and phone trading.

IG Markets (ACRA No. 53059621X) is licensed by the MAS and International Enterprise Singapore.

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August Smashes All Records for IG Markets

IG Markets, Singapore’s number one CFD provider for customer service

(PRWEB) September 14, 2011

Singapore’s top CFD Provider for customer service, IG Markets, has seen its busiest month yet. Due to volatility across the world’s financial markets, the company saw record numbers for both transaction volumes and revenue. The month also saw a surge in new accounts being opened.

Peter McDermott, Managing Director of IG Markets in Singapore attributed the increased numbers to market volatility. “Globally, IG Group sees its clients make over 5 million transactions in a typical month. On August 9 alone we saw almost 900,000 transactions, with markets on both sides of the Atlantic moving hundreds, or even thousands of points.”

August saw concerns about the Eurozone sovereign-debt crisis rise, an increase of the US debt ceiling to USD14.3 trillion and US credit downgraded from AAA to AA+ by S&P’s. Investors turned to gold as a safe haven, pushing its price to a record USD1,913.50 an ounce, as Wall Street, the FTSE 100 and the Australia 200 traded in ranges between 750 and 2000 points.

CFDs, or contracts for difference, are a useful tool for trading in turbulent times, as traders can go short across a range of CFD markets, including forex, shares, commodities, stocks indices and more. Traders can also take advantage of large price movements by using options spreads and binaries.

Mr McDermott was pleased with how IG Markets performed under these extreme conditions, commenting that “our team quickly responded to changing market conditions, maintaining our trademark excellence in client service. Our online trading platform, PureDeal, also performed very well under the increase in trading volume.”

About IG Markets

IG Markets specialises in providing CFDs, on over 7,000 global share CFDs, along with indices, forex, commodities, options, binaries and more. IG Markets is part of the IG Group, a UK FTSE 250 member with over 130,000 active clients worldwide. For further information please call +65 6390 5118 or visit http://www.igmarkets.com.sg.

Remember that CFDs and forex are leveraged products and can result in losses that exceed your initial deposit. CFD and forex trading may not be suitable for everyone, so please ensure that you fully understand the risks involved. Please consider our Risk Disclosure Statement before you enter into any transaction with us.

Investment Trends’ 2010 CFD & FX Report revealed IG Markets scored highest for overall customer satisfaction among Singapore’s CFD traders. The survey of nearly 8,000 investors, also revealed that IG Markets received the highest scores in the CFD industry for value for money, spreads, margin requirements, easy-to-use platform, charting, efficiency of taking trades, email and telephone customer service, reporting of positions and transactions, and phone trading.
IG Markets (ACRA No. 53059621X) is licensed by the MAS and International Enterprise Singapore.

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