Federal Open Market Committee participants viewed the outlook for economic growth and employment as having worsened significantly since June, according to the minutes from the Oct. 28-29 session released yesterday.
Participants expected that the real gross domestic product growth would remain very weak next year and the subsequent pace of recovery would be quite slow. They also anticipated that the unemployment rate would increase substantially further.
A combination of a "stronger-than-expected economy, higher Treasury rates, robust supply, and rich valuations resulting in choppy markets" have made the trading environment in H124 "quite difficult," according to Barclays.
Two rating agencies upgraded Los Angeles Unified School District's bond ahead of multi-billion dollar refunding.
The Basel III Endgame proposal to restructure capital holding levels comes under fire.
Friday price talk for the unrated tax-exempt paper was between 11% and 15%.
The board approved that step at its second quarter board meeting held this week.
The Inflation Reduction Act, affordable housing and clean energy were among the topics discussed at Baker Tilly's DevelUP conference in Chicago this week.
