Finance

Moody's Investors Service placed 29 cities and school districts on review for downgrade.

Municipal bond buyers will be seeing almost $5 billion of bonds hit the market on Tuesday, led by big sales from California and Illinois.

Treasurer John Chiang extended his office's sanctions against the firm for a second year.

Municipal bonds finished mixed on Monday as an $850M New York City Transitional Finance Authority deal priced for retail investors.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Assured Guaranty retained their positions in third-quarter rankings, while Build America Mutual rebounded from a stint on negative credit watch to capture its typical market share.

S&P lowered its outlook to negative, citing constraints from the four-month impasse.

Municipal bonds were unchanged at mid-session as the big New York City Transitional Finance Authority deal was priced for retail investors.

The municipal bond market will see more volume than it has in a while, as almost $10 billion of new deals are set to hit the screens this week.

The short-term lifeline will enable the commonwealth to make Medicaid payments while it will lacks a revenue plan.

The primary muni market is set for nearly $10 billion in weekly volume, as deals from Illinois, New York and California dominate the calendar.

The prairie state plans $6 billion of general obligation borrowing over the next two weeks, offerings expected to lure investors with unusually rich yields for a sovereign state credit.

Top-shelf municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session, according to traders, who are looking ahead to the next week's almost $10 billion new issue slate.

Municipal bond traders on Friday are looking ahead to next week’s new issue slate as yields began the session largely unchanged.

The city is looking for banks to lead a tender offer and refunding of bonds issued as part of its bankruptcy exit.

The law provides increased revenue-raising flexibility for storm water management.

Top-quality municipal bonds ended stronger on Thursday as more than $3 billion of transportation deals hit the market.

UBS Wealth Management Americas continues to fill out its re-emerging public finance practice, adding three more new-hires in Dallas, Los Angeles and New York.

The county must move to replace the lost revenue, the rating agency says.

Top quality municipal bonds were stronger at midday as two big transportation deals hit the market.

The commonwealth will also issue GANs and commonwealth transportation fund revenue bonds in November.