Montana

Community Medical Center in Missoula, Mont., maintained its Baa2 rating, but received a negative outlook from Moody's.

Sales of municipal bonds in the Far West region grew by almost 11% during the first half of 2013 compared to a year earlier as low rates continued to drive volume.

The Montana Board of Housing on Monday received an Aa1 rating and stable outlook from Moody's Investors Service ahead of plans on Aug. 19 to price $50 million in single family program bonds.

Unexpectedly strong income tax revenues are outpacing the growth in sales taxes receipts during the tepid economic recovery differing from previous recoveries when the opposite was true, according to a Standard & Poor's report.

Sales of municipal bonds in the Far West region grew by almost a quarter in 2012 compared to a year ago, spurred by record low interest rates that led to an increase in refinancing.

Montana Board of Investment scores AA rating from Fitch Ratings ahead of plans to price $12 million in bonds on Feb. 22.

Montana’s Governor-elect Steve Bullock said he doesn't plan to make any big course corrections to the direction fellow Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer has taken.

Moody's Investors Service Tuesday affirmed Billings, Mont.'s general obligation debt at Aa2 ahead of a GO bond sale.

Montana’s public employees pension fund and its teachers pension fund are facing shortfalls of almost $2 billion each, according to an Associated Press report.

While the federal government and 42 states wrestled with tough economic decisions based on projected shortfalls, Montana officials were congratulating themselves for achieving a surplus this year.

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service chief counsel’s office has issued guidance that sides with a conduit issuer in Montana and a retirement home operator in a four-year old dispute over whether some of the authority’s bonds are taxable.

The Internal Revenue Service is auditing $40.5 million of single-family housing bonds issued in 2003 by the Montana Board of Housing.

ALAMEDA, Calif. — Issuers in the Far West sold $43.36 billion of municipal bonds in 672 transactions during the first six months of 2010, according to Thomson Reuters, down from $47.12 billion in 600 transactions in the first half of 2009.

DALLAS — On the heels of a Fitch Ratings downgrade, the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System plans to issue more than $1 billion of revenue bonds this week for operations in three states.

Standard & Poor's affirmed its AA rating and stable outlook on Montana's $183 million of general obligation bonds.

SAN FRANCISCO — The recession has had a lighter touch in Montana than in most states, but its affects are beginning to eat into the state budget, according to a report the Legislature’s fiscal analyst delivered last week.