Finance

The seat of Niagara County was raised to A3 by Moody's Investors Service.

Municipal bonds were mostly stronger as action in the primary slowed.

The 8^th annual Municipal Finance Conference is slated to take place July 15-16 at the Brookings Institution in the nation’s capital.

Deals from Hawaii, Colorado,and Virginia hit the market Wednesday as munis turned mostly weaker.

York County, fresh off the Moody's upgrade, competitively prices the first of two general obligation bond issues Thursday.

Municipal bond buyers were treated to some new supply on Wednesday as deals from issuers in Hawaii, Colorado and Virginia came to market.

Municipal bonds lost early strength and finished mixed on Tuesday as traders returned to work after the Dr. Martin Luther King holiday.

Municipals were stronger Tuesday ahead of this week’s $5 billion new issue calendar.

A trader said lack of follow-through on long new issues continued to plague the market as the weekly calendar shrank to $5B of issuance.

Hilltop Securities, the Southwest region's top financial advisor, is hiring and restructuring management two years after a difficult merger with Southwest Securities.

The municipal bond market is prepping for around $5 billion of new issuance in the upcoming holiday-shortened week.

Two lone deals priced on Thursday to close out new issuance for the week.

They include the return of Sarah Sanders as assistant treasurer for debt management, a position she held from 2007 to 2017.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration is interested in a similar structure for a pension obligation bond.

A few remaining municipal bond deals hit screens on Thursday to wind down the week's issuance.

The primary municipal market chugged along on Wednesday, as the two biggest deals of the week priced.

Completion of a replacement Tappan Zee Bridge with debt levels kept in check triggered upgrades to New York State Thruway Authority bonds.

The action continued in the municipal bond primary market, as the two biggest deals of the week were priced.

Municipal bond underwriters suffered from muted issuance under the new tax laws, as Bank of America Merrill Lynch remained on top of the year-end rankings.

Buyer sentiment barely budged as new issuance flooded the muni market on Tuesday.