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Walter told The Bond Buyer she has been hearing the same push for transparency since her start at the SEC.

Note issuance was particularly heavy in the second and third quarters of 2019.

For the third time in four years, long-term municipal bond volume has surpassed the $400 billion mark — this time thanks to a second half surge in taxable issuance that took the market by storm.

The two active municipal bond insurers insured $5 billion more in 2019 than they did in 2018 thanks to a surge of issuance in the fourth quarter.

While these were the percentage growth leaders, education and transportation had the biggest dollar growth.

November's progressive income tax referendum looms large over Gov. J.B. Pritzker's proposed fiscal 2021 budget and the state's long-term fiscal prospects.

Bond yields keep grinding lower ahead of the largest issuance week of 2020, clocking in at $13 billion.

Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Richard Clarida disputed suggestions that the central bank suffers from a “hall of mirrors” problem under which it slavishly follows financial-market expectations for monetary policy.

The $5.2 billion Buckeye Tobacco Settlement Authority deal will restructure the debt service schedule, returning the Ohio credit to investment-grade.

Slightly more than half of likely California voters support Proposition 13, according to a poll conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California.