California

Border cities like San Diego have obvious concerns about the impact of a trade war, but the ripples would extend into the South and Midwest, analysts say.

California's high-speed train has become one of the nation's most politicized infrastructure projects.

The rating agency cited an easing of the state's fiscal challenges for lifting the outlook on the state's Aa2 rating to stable from negative.

Bond Buyer senior reporter Keeley Webster hosted a wide-ranging discussion on the state's fall bond slate, housing, and second-term priorities with California Treasurer Fiona Ma and Deputy Treasurer of Public Finance John Sheldon.

The San Diego County-based healthcare district is at risk of "breaching financial covenants which, absent lender cooperation, could lead to acceleration of all of Palomar's outstanding revenue debt," Moody's Ratings analysts wrote.

California's IBank has partnered with an insurer and fire resilience fund to pay for fire resilience programs.

The company hopes to come to market after completing negotiations on $6 billion of senior bank financing.

The trifecta of sports team exits, homelessness and city leadership turnover has placed the San Francisco Bay area city on shaky fiscal ground.

The prepaid electricity bond deal issued by the California Community Choice Financing Authority for the Clean Power Allliance was record-setting in size.

AI champ Nvidia and three other tech companies are driving a stock market surge resulting in California revenues coming out $7 billion above expectations set when the 2024-25 budget was approved in July.

Credit ratings and the role of rating agencies have changed in response to an evolving market over the past 16 years, according to speakers during an online California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission.

The wealthy city is borrowing $124.2 million through its finance authority. The bonds are backed by lease payments the city will pay from its general fund.

Voters approved at least 168 local school bond measures for $42.8 billion, according to preliminary tallies, but dozens of bond requests will fall short.

It is the largest measure bond measure the nation's second-biggest school district has ever put before its voters.

Pressure on the state budget level is being felt by both the University of California and California State University systems.

The correction to the municipal market has improved muni to UST ratios while uncertainty hangs over ahead of the election. J.P. Morgan's Peter DeGroot said the firm expects the end of next week "will mark the end of the difficult technical period in 2024 and believe that net supply in November will lead to better valuations broadly in the municipal market."

Several macro trends have converged to drive growth in municipal bond issuance, said participants at The Bond Buyer's California Public Finance conference.

Build America Mutual insured the majority of the maturities in the West Contra Costa Unified School District GO deal.

San Francisco's slow recovery from the pandemic and continued financial pressures drove the downgrade, Moody's analysts said.

State Treasurer Fiona Ma appointed Christina Sarron as executive director of the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority.