Quoted from Kiplinger:
The principal attraction of muni bonds, which are issued by state and local governments in the U.S., is that interest income is free from federal taxes – and for bonds issued in your state of residence, free from state and local taxes as well. Interest rates tend to follow movements in the Treasury market.
“Yields have really come up in short-term munis this year in anticipation of Fed rate hikes,” says Dan Genter, president of RNC Genter Capital Management.
For instance, in the first quarter of 2022, the yields of five- and 10-year munis jumped nearly a full percentage point (a huge move in that short a time frame), according to Jim Colby, a muni bond manager and strategist at fund firm VanEck.