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Municipals rallied hard Thursday following another day of U.S. Treasury market gains while equities closed the session up as investors contemplate the end of Fed rate hikes. Triple-A yields fell 10 to 14 basis points while UST saw gains of up to 16bps out long. These were the largest gains the muni market has seen

The dramatic move last month by UBS Financial Services to lay off nearly its entire public finance team and exit the negotiated underwriting business is an extreme example of the cuts seen at big firms since January as the municipal market slogs through its second year of anemic issuance. But the Wall Street layoffs offer

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler and his team at the SEC have increasingly come under fire for their aggressive regulatory agenda, and there is a growing push from the securities industry for the agency to give the market more time to digest the many overlapping proposals. That’s the takeaway from the latest House

Inflation-adjusted revenues of the 50 states were down 13.7% January through August compared to the same period a year earlier, the Urban Institute reported, but despite this states remain fiscally healthy, thanks to prudent use of recent surpluses, one analyst said. In nominal terms, revenues were down 9.7% in the period. August state tax revenues

Opportunity 180, a Nevada nonprofit, and Equitable Facilities Fund, a philanthropy-backed impact fund, are joining with the state of Nevada in what the firms called a “first of its kind public-private partnership” to provide a dedicated facility funding resource for public charter schools looking to open or expand in Nevada. The partnership, two years in

Municipals were firmer Wednesday but underperformed a U.S. Treasury rally after the Fed held rates steady. Equities rallied as well. The municipal market was up “a touch” after the Fed announced it would keep rates unchanged at their November meeting, according to Michael Pietronico, chief executive officer at Miller Tabak Asset Management. Commenting on the

Quickly rising demand for energy in Georgia has left a major state power provider searching for additional sources of electricity to meet growing near-term needs, all while keeping in mind carbon-zero commitments. Just a little over a year after Georgia Power released its Integrated Resources Plan, a blueprint for meeting power demand through 2030 and

Municipal market professionals remain committed to bringing back tax-exempt advance refunding while they explore other avenues to replace the refinancing savings once offered by that tool, even as worry mounts that interest in reviving it may begin to wane both in Congress and among younger municipal market participants. Since the elimination of tax-exempt advance refunding

A bankrupt Iowa hospital could ultimately end up in the hands of the University of Iowa, which submitted the winning bid in a reopened auction last week.  A hearing on Mercy Hospital’s sale to the university is scheduled for Monday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Cedar Rapids. Mercy Hospital in Iowa City filed a Chapter

For train enthusiasts and municipal investors alike, the September opening of the Florida Brightline train expansion to Orlando marked a key goal for the long-term success of the nation’s only privately financed, intercity express passenger train and one of the largest speculative project finance deals in the municipal market. The extension was also celebrated by

Municipal bond delinquencies declined in the third quarter, despite some dramatic outliers including Mercy Hospital’s bankruptcy filing in Iowa, and some unrated affordable housing and senior living bonds, Moody’s Investors Service said. There were only three new municipal bond defaults in the third quarter, compared to nine in the second quarter, Moody’s analysts wrote. Two

Municipals were steady to end a volatile month, as U.S. Treasuries were mixed and equities ended up. Tuesday also marked the start of the FOMC meeting, which is unlikely to contain any major surprises at the conclusion of the meeting on Wednesday, said Cooper Howard, a fixed income strategist at Charles Schwab. The Fed is

Michigan-based Great Lakes Water Authority is set to return to market with upward of $400 million of a combination of senior and second lien water supply and sewer disposal revenue and refunding bonds with two ratings upgrades and after it took a step toward ending a years-long legal dispute with a city just north of

Municipal Market Analytics reported a record number of higher education impairments have been added to its Default Trends database this year as colleges and universities struggle with lower enrollment and increased operating costs. MMA added 14 colleges or universitiesto its database, besting a previous record of eight in 2009. The $1.06 billion impaired so far

October municipal bond issuance surged year-over-year, as issuers came off the sidelines after realizing that the Fed will keep rates higher for longer and that projects could only be delayed for so long. Led by tax-exempt, new-money deals, October’s total volume rose 29.3% to $37.156 billion in 661 issues from $28.738 billion in 614 issues a

Illinois and Wall Street banks accused of rigging interest rates on the state’s variable-rate debt have reached a final deal after the state and the whistleblower who brought the case agreed to smaller payments to resolve a dispute over attorney fees. The deal calls for the group of eight banks to pay $70 million to

Fitch Ratings lifted its outlook on Denver International Airport’s ratings to positive from stable ahead of the sale of as much as $815 million of subordinate lien revenue bonds as soon as next week. The rating agency, which affirmed ratings of A-plus for the subordinate bonds and AA-minus for senior bonds, cited “ongoing positive trends

The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued exemptive relief for 144A eligible fixed income participants under its Rule 15c2-11, which may impact the edges of the municipal market. Municipal securities are generally exempt from Rule 15c2-11 but the exemption will still have an effect on those “municipal adjacent” securities with corporate CUSIPs that sometimes trade

Transcription: Keeley Webster (00:03):Hello, I am Keeley Webster here with another Bond Buyer podcast. Today I will be providing some insight into California Treasurer Ma’s run for Lieutenant Governor ahead of our broadcast of a fireside chat she did with Wells Fargo director Julia Kim at the California Public Finance Conference. Ma announced in June,

Overdue and over budget, a project to redevelop Connecticut’s New London Pier into an offshore wind energy hub for projects along the Atlantic coast is nearly complete. Its first shipments, components for a project in the Long Island Sound, are set to leave port early Tuesday. Launched in 2020 with an original price tag of

The Puerto Rico Oversight Board defended its proposed supplemental disclosure statement and plan of adjustment in a court filing, and asked the judge to dismiss objections claiming the plan was unconfirmable. The board asked the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico to reject the challenges made in mid-October by GoldenTree Asset