Finance

As California announced its plans to fund infrastructure and cut its interest costs, Hawaii and the Los Angeles MTA tapped the primary market.

Moody's Investors Service upgraded Newark to Baa2 from Baa3.

California announced its big spring borrowing schedule as Hawaii and and the Los Angeles MTA came to market.

Washington state and Hawaii kicked off action in the primary market on Tuesday.

Henry Cisneros and the principals of Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co. have launched American Triple I Partners.

Washington state highlighted primary market action with the sale of $640 million of general obligation bonds.

Improved liquidity, spreads, and flows prompt some first-quarter adjustments.

The municipal bond market is in good shape ahead of this week’s $7.2 billion new issue slate.

The Sacramento City Unified School District is on track to have a negative cash balance in November.

Municipal bonds were mostly stronger at midday ahead of the week's attractively sized new issue slate.

Weaker operating results led S&P Global Ratings to lower its outlook for the Evanston, Illinois-based university.

Municipal primary volume will surge to $7.2 billion in the week of Feb. 4 from a revised total of $3.8 billion the previous week.

Enright, who died of bone cancer at 72, held fiscal positions with local governments before starting a nearly 30-year investment banking career.

PFM says the acquisition will broaden its reach into special districts and land-secured municipal financings in Florida and across the country.

A lawsuit alleging fraud accusing banks and broker-dealers of fraud in the variable-rate demand obligation market will proceed, an Illinois judge ruled.

Ipreo forecasts weekly bond volume will surge to $7.2 billion from a revised total of $3.8 billion this week.

Shields, fired by Wells Fargo in December, joined Loop Capital Markets LLC as a managing director this week.

The N.Y. Metropolitan Transportation Authority sold over $1 billion of securities Thursday as munis ended stronger.

Mt. Pleasant, Racine County, and the Wisconsin state government all face risks if the Taiwanese manufacturer can't deliver on its big promises.

S&P Global Ratings says Detroit's Local Development Finance Authority's collections haven't been enough to cover debt service payments on subordinate bonds issued in 1997.