Missouri

Kansas City International’s three terminals would be replaced by a new $1 billion P3 facility.

The Joplin Recovery Tax Increment Financing District that covers the disaster zone and downtown could be paid off in four to five years, as much as 13 years early at its current rate of growth, the Joplin City Council was told Monday night.

St. Louis and other public bodies accuse the NFL of improperly approving the Rams move.

Successful St. Louis and Kansas City tax and bond measures support their credit profiles.

St. Louis based SSM is turning to the taxable market to pay down debt and bolster its liquidity.

Midwestern voters loosened their purse strings to approve Kansas City, Missouri’s $800 million infrastructure referendum but held fast against St. Louis’ public financing request for a new soccer stadium.

Kansas City area voters embraced a host of school district bond issues Tuesday.

Kansas City, Missouri’s $800 million request is the biggest bond measure on April 4 ballots in Midwestern states, where voters will decide the fate of more than $2 billion of municipal borrowing requests.

St. Louis is seeking federal approval to explore a privatization of St. Louis Lambert International Airport as a means to generate private investment in the air field and funds for city use.

Threats to St. Louis University’s medical accreditation adds some remote credit risks to the school’s rating if not successfully resolved, Moody’s Investors Service said.

St. Louis-based Stern Brothers & Co. has hired longtime public finance banker and manager Linda Matkowski to serve as chief operating officer as the investment bank looks to put more teeth into its status as a woman-owned firm heading into its second century of business.

St. Louis received a downgrade from Moody’s Investors Service Tuesday.

Kansas City has a market stop planned for Wednesday before moving on to voters who are being asked next month to authorize $800 million in general obligation borrowing for infrastructure work over the next two decades.

The University of Missouri’s AA-plus rating carries a stable S&P Global Ratings outlook, up from negative.

Issuers in the Midwest sold $87.2 billion of municipal bonds in 2016, a 23.4% year-over-year increase that was the biggest of any region.

St. Louis voters will decide whether to raise taxes to fund a light-rail expansion and other projects and to cover the city's contribution for a new professional soccer stadium.

St. Louis is hoping the courts will allow voters to decide this spring tax increase proposals to fund a light-rail expansion and other projects and to cover the city’s contribution for a new professional soccer stadium.

S&P Global Ratings said it revised its outlook to negative from stable and affirmed its A-plus long-term rating on Missouri Health & Educational Facilities Authority's series 2006, 2011, and 2015B bonds issued for St. Luke's Episcopal-Presbyterian Hospital (St. Luke's).

Missouri needs to cut $700 million in spending through the next 18 months to keep its books balanced, Gov. Eric Greitens warned this week.

Missouri Gov.-elect Eric Greitens threw a wrench in financing plans for a $200 million stadium to house a new St. Louis-based Major League Soccer team this week after announcing his opposition to public subsidies for professional teams.