Two senators last night unveiled a bill that would make the $30 million small-issuer limit for bank-qualified bonds permanent and index it to inflation.
The Municipal Bond Market Support Act of 2010, introduced by Sens. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, has been referred to the committee.
The bill would extend a provision in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that allows banks to deduct 80% of the costs of buying and carrying tax-exempt debt sold by borrowers whose annual issuance is no greater than $30 million. That is an increase above the previous limit of $10 million. The provision is currently scheduled to expire at the end of the year.
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Polk County, Iowa is issuing $113 million of general obligation capital loan notes, Series 2024A, for the Des Moines Airport Authority's new terminal project.
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Munis posted losses in April, returning negative 1.24%. The asset class is also seeing losses of 1.62% year-to-date.
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Alaska's efforts to manage its cyclical revenues brought an upgrade from S&P Global Ratings and positive outlook from Moody's Ratings.
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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., has already pledged to try to overturn the rule in Congress.
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April's volume stood at $40.456 billion in 653 issues, up 21.2% from $33.377 billion in 666 issues in 2023.
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The deal, originally planned at $1.5 billion in three maturities, was downsized and restructured and then restructured again into one 10-year bullet maturity.
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