Richard Williamson

The Texas Public Finance Authority, one of the state's primary issuers of general obligation debt, will retain First Southwest Co. and Coastal Securities as its financial advisors for 2016.

With Kansas lawmakers already working to close a $200 million budget gap, the state now must now address a court order to fix the school funding formula by June 30.

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin wants lawmakers to approve another $120 million of bonds to complete repairs of the Capitol, as they struggle with a $910 million budget gap.

Local sales tax collections in Texas fell 0.7% in January, with steeper drops in the state’s energy producing and processing centers, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar reported.

Houston increased the size of its combined new money and refunding deal to $957 million as the market provided savings of $116.7 million, officials said.

Standard & Poor's credit analysts say they will closely watch how Oklahoma resolves its $900.8 million shortfall in a depressed energy market that has drained the state's coffers.

Dallas-based Hilltop Securities has hired five investment bankers in the Midwest, including four from the Edward Jones team that quit doing negotiated deals in 2015.

With all new leadership, the city of Houston will weigh into the bond market with $800 million of revenue and refunding bonds for its combined utility system.

Low oil prices showed a broad impact on the Texas economy in January as sales tax revenue fell 4% below the same month last year.

As Kansas revenues fell $6.8 million below projections for January, lawmakers began looking for ways to close the expanding budget gap.

A $327 million University of Kansas bond sale that used a Wisconsin conduit issuer drew criticism from lawmakers seeking to ban future out-of-state deals.

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry told a Bond Buyer conference that policies developed during his record 14 years in office will shield the state from serious damage from falling oil prices.

Texas state and local governments have learned how to manage the boom-bust cycles of the oil industry and are fairly well positioned for lengthy downturn, experts told the The Bond Buyer’s Texas Public Finance Conference.

The nation's leading bond counsel firm will open its Houston office with five attorneys from two prominent firms in the Bayou City.

Two Dallas-area school districts – one serving some of the wealthiest students in the nation, the other some of the poorest – are going to the bond market.

With falling oil prices taking the bloom off the Lone Star State's economy, bond issuers and industry executives will examine the future at The Bond Buyer's Texas Public Finance Conference in Austin.

Dallas Area Rapid Transit expects savings of $47 million or about 9% on a $483 million advance refunding of 2008 bonds.

Two of the top broker-dealer and financial advisory firms in the Southwest officially combined under the management of Hilltop Holdings on Monday.

The University of Utah won a Standard & Poor’s upgrade to AA-plus en route to the bond market with $76 million of bonds.

Montgomery County, Texas, officials estimate that investors' flight to quality during a severe downturn in the equities and commodities markets helped reduce interest costs on a $112 million bond deal by nearly $27 million.