Lynne Funk is Senior Director, Strategy and Content, Live Media - Municipal Finance. She leads and shapes The Bond Buyer's six major events, serving as host, moderator, thought leader and brand ambassador. Lynne also is charged with creating innovative live media formats, including new conferences, virtual summits and podcasts to help serve our municipal finance community. Lynne has nearly two decades of experience in the public finance industry. She was most recently Executive Editor of The Bond Buyer. Previously, she was a director at Municipal Market Analytics, Inc., and in the Policy and Public Advocacy for the Municipal Securities Division at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.
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Muni to U.S. Treasury ratios hover near the lowest point in a decade and analysts see little impetus for munis to catch up in the near term.
January 12 -
The Muni New Issue Upload Form was created to expand access to additional deal participants and streamline the submission process for the forward calendar.
January 12 -
The companies said the new offering combines ICE Data Services’ expertise in municipal bond pricing and reference data alongside ADP’s aggregated, anonymized and timely HR and compensation data.
January 12 -
Municipals were little changed Monday as participants await the larger new-issue calendar while equities and U.S. Treasuries react to news out of Washington and COVID-19 ravages the globe.
January 11 -
As issuance rose in 2020, so did municipal bond insurance usage, with $34.167 billion wrapped, or 7.5% insured total issuance from almost 5.7% in 2019.
January 11 -
The employment report showed 140,000 decline in nonfarm payrolls in December, but economists found some positives in the numbers.
January 8 -
While COVID-19 ravaged, state and local governments and their agencies sold record bond volume, propping up their budgets and the industry.
January 8 -
It was inevitable that muni yields would need to rise somewhat as the UST 10-year broke above 1%, however participants said the supply/demand imbalance will keep munis from rising as quickly as Treasuries. More than $1 billion inflows reported.
January 7 -
FOMC members backed maintaining asset purchases, although “a couple” were “open” to “weighting purchases of Treasury securities toward longer maturities,” according to minutes released Wednesday.
January 6 -
The growth in issuance in 2020 spread out over the top 10 underwriters, with bulge-bracket firms sharing the wealth.
January 6
