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Alaska has authorized up to $3.5 billion of pension obligation bonds it hopes to sell in late October, though a broken office-building lease raised one observer's doubts about the state's willingness to stand behind "subject to appropriation" pledges.

Los Angeles County lease-revenue bonds and certificates of appreciation received a one-notch Moody’s Investors Service upgrade to Aa3.

The UCLA Anderson Forecast economists discussed what impact policies proposed by the presidential candidates would have on economic growth.

The Internal Revenue Service has informally advised the Baker Correctional Development Corp. in Florida that $45 million of first mortgage revenue bonds it issued in 2008 are taxable.

San Francisco’s water utility will issue almost $860 million of water revenue refunding bonds in a negotiated deal.

The DC Water and Sewer Authority closed on a historic deal Thursday, issuing the nation's first Environmental Impact Bond to fund the initial green infrastructure project in its DC Clean Rivers Project.

Technology-driven transportation projects will be funded with $15 million of new federal Smart Cities grants.

California’s treasurer blocked Wells Fargo from bond underwriting and other business relationships, as shockwaves from a fake accounts scandal in the company’s retail bank rocked the fifth-largest municipal underwriter.

California Treasurer John Chiang will make an announcement regarding Wells Fargo Bank at a press conference this afternoon.

S&P Global came out with three favorable reports on California.