Finance

The MSRB is making a push to understand muni market indicators.

Municipals were firm as Massachusetts offered almost $727 million of general obligation bonds to retail buyers.

The Little Rock-based firm added Matthew Johansen as a senior vice president.

The municipal bond market will see under $4 billion of new paper to close out the month and market participants remain hopeful volume will spike in September and stay strong into the fall.

Wilshire Consulting said the aggregate funded ratio for U.S. state pension plans remained unchanged between and first and second quarters of 2018 at 70.8%, up 0.7 percentage points from the previous 12 months.

The ceasing of casino revenue sharing payments continues to hamper the credit conditions of Niagara Falls, N.Y., according to S&P Global Ratings.

The municipal bond market will see under $4 billion of new paper to close out the month and market participants remain hopeful volume will spike in September and stay strong into the fall.

S&P Global Ratings revised its outlook on the state’s general obligation bond rating to stable from negative and affirmed its AA-minus rating.

Municipal bond buyers will get another chance to get some Massachusetts and Texas paper as both issuers head into the market.

The organization chose Karen Daly, Emily Brock, and Lori Schreckengost to receive the annual awards.

The Rahm Emanuel administration told aldermen that a POB could save $6 billion and ease future tax and fee hikes.

Massachusetts and Texas will be in the market next week as the unofficial summer season winds down during the last week before Labor Day.

The proposed Treasury rules would limit states' use of charitable deductions as workarounds for the $10,000 cap on the federal deduction for state and local taxes.

Deals from New York and Massachusetts led the new issue slate on Thursday as the last of the week’s supply came to market.

Citi's assessment is conditioned on pension obligation bonds being part of a package to tackle the city's pension liabilities.

Municipal bond market participants are seeing the last of this week’s new issues come to market on Thursday, led by issuers from New York and Massachusetts.

Muni market groups claimed victory after federal banking regulators moved to treat munis like all other types of Level 2B HQLA.

Philip Howard, founder of the group Common Good, advocates measures to simplify government and end paralysis. Paul Burton hosts.

Both the big Illinois bond deal and the giant Texas note sale were warmly received by investors Wednesday.

A report on cyber-related risks released Wednesday by S&P Global warned that “a successful attack on an entity with limited resources could have a credit impact.”