Finance

The airport, also selling $412.8 million of new money, will join a bevy of issuers who have deployed a tender offer in the hope of realizing refunding savings.

Investors added $571.5 million from municipal bond mutual funds in the week ended Wednesday, following $224.6 million of outflows the prior week, according to LSEG Lipper data.

Port Freeport's decision to go property tax-free resulted in a revenue bond rating downgrade from S&P and raised disclosure questions.

The fund's sell-off in June shows the challenges of accurate pricing in the high-yield muni market.

Larger dealer networks lead to lower markups, but smaller networks show evidence of potential collusion and market manipulation, the paper said.

Longer-term munis have become more attractive, said Cooper Howard, a fixed income strategist at Charles Schwab.

An academic paper presented at the Brookings Institute's annual conference found that future wildfire risks are already having economically significant impacts on financial markets, municipal borrowing costs and vulnerable communities.

There is a buyer base that is a little bit "skeptical" of longer maturities, but it's more of a retail response, said Adam Congdon, a director at Payden & Rygel.

While the cost of small trades is higher than institutional trades across all fixed-income markets, the gap is more pronounced in the municipal bond market.

The primary market saw "decent subscriptions" last week, but the entire primary calendar came at "healthy concessions to where evals had been marked on existing bonds," Birch Creek strategists said.