California

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.