Maria Bonello

Moody's Investors Service enhanced the ratings of 98 New York school districts to Aa3 from A1 with stable outlooks, following rating upgrades for the state's general obligation bonds.

Market participants anticipate that the $285 million Illinois Sports Facility Authority refunding bonds deal will bring extra spread to the market on Thursday.

Municipal Assurance Corp., Assured Guaranty's municipal-only business, has been licensed by the California Department of Insurance to write financial guaranty insurance in the state alongside its affiliates Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. and Assured Guaranty Corp.

The Bond Buyer’s muni bond indexes strengthened in the week ending July 24.

Maryland's general obligation pricing, which pushed yields on the MMD scale lower earlier in the week, may bode well for the $163.6 million Louisiana Public Facilities Authority deal scheduled to enter the market on Thursday.

The state of Maryland is expected to auction a two-part deal totaling $779.7 million of general obligation bonds in the competitive market Wednesday, the largest deal of the week.

MUFG Union Bank NA, the United States unit of Japan's biggest bank, plans to climb the ranks among U.S. municipal underwriters by focusing on the largest issuers.

The Bond Buyer's muni bond indexes were mixed in the week ending July 17.

Morgan Stanley is scheduled to price $675 million of New York City Transitional Finance Authority tax-exempt fixed-rate revenue bonds for institutions on Wednesday.

Market participants are gearing up to throw their cash into the primary market this week as July 4th vacations and the World Cup have come to an end, putting focus back onto the market.

The Bond Buyer's muni bond indexes weakened the week ending July 10.

Financial guarantors that insure $15 billion of Puerto Rico bonds have taken a drubbing in the stock market as the island's debt restructuring law triggered a series of credit downgrades.

The municipal market is off to a sluggish start this week, as July begins with light supply.

Puerto Rico's new debt law is a credit negative for financial guarantors, Moody's Investors Service said.

The Bond Buyer's muni bond indexes were narrowly mixed in the week ending July 2.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group INC., a Japanese bank and financial services company, aims to become one of the top 10 banks in the U.S. and has identified public finance as a growth area to achieve that goal.

Market participants are already impatient with the summer doldrums and are indifferent toward Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen's upcoming speech on Wednesday.

Municipal bonds weakened as the third quarter started, leaving traders to look to seasonal reinvestment and non-traditional buyers to help offset concerns over Puerto Rico credits.

Goldman Sachs won the largest deal of the week: $554.5 million of Alabama Public School and College Authority capital improvement refunding bonds.

Many data analysis services that municipal market participants utilize are not veritably modern. Static trading platforms have fallen behind the methods used to trade other asset classes, which can cause a lack of pre-and post-trading transparency in the market.