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Contact: Jennifer A. Galloway, Chief Communications Officer 
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MSRB ADDS GRAPHING TOOLS FOR HISTORICAL YIELD DATA ON EMMA®

Alexandria, VA – To ensure that new graphing tools on the Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA®) website are useful to the broadest range of investors, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) today added a graphical display of yield information on EMMA.

The new graphs allow users to visualize historical yields over time for any of the nearly 1.1 million securities on EMMA, supplementing the trade price graphs that became available on EMMA in June 2014. The new yield graphs also are now integrated into EMMA’s price discovery tool to enable investors and others to visually compare yield information for multiple securities with similar characteristics.

“With the launch of the price discovery tool last month, the MSRB provided investors with a new way of looking at trade data on EMMA to more quickly and easily gauge the price of a municipal security,” said MSRB Executive Director Lynnette Kelly. “The addition of yield graphs on EMMA further enhances the accessibility and usefulness of EMMA trade data.”

The MSRB’s EMMA website supports market transparency by serving as the official source of free trade data and disclosure documents on virtually all municipal securities.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) protects and strengthens the municipal bond market, enabling access to capital, economic growth, and societal progress in tens of thousands of communities across the country. The MSRB fulfills this mission by creating trust in our market through informed regulation of dealers and municipal advisors that protects investors, issuers and the public interest; building technology systems that power our market and provide transparency for issuers, institutions, and the investing public; and serving as the steward of market data that empowers better decisions and fuels innovation for the future. The MSRB is a self-regulatory organization governed by a board of directors that has a majority of public members, in addition to representatives of regulated entities. The MSRB is overseen by the Securities and Exchange Commission and Congress.

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