Washington

The rating agencies affirmed two AA-plus and one triple-A rating ahead of the deal.

Recovering air passenger numbers were one factor Fitch Ratings cited in revising the Port of Seattle's outlook to stable from negative.

The bulk of $743 billion in improvements needed to alleviate climate risk and aging infrastructure would be borne by the utilities, a rating agency says.

Rates, ratios and credit spreads have munis entering May on solid footing, though some pressures due to tax season and rising U.S. Treasuries remain.

Forward delivery sales, a replacement for tax-exempt advance refundings, could grow in 2021.

Mike Pellicciotti, a Democratic state representative, unseated incumbent Duane Davidson. Both say they are working on a smooth transition.

Initiative 976, which would have cut car registration fees, would also required Sound Transit “to retire, defease, or refinance bonds”

A Washington utility's ratings will survive Boeing's decision to move 787 production to South Carolina, but local economy may not be so lucky.

They are pushing the U.S. Senate for up to $36 billion, citing the devastating effects from COVID-19.

Issuers in the Far West sold $85 billion of municipal bonds in 2019, a 23% increase from 2018.

Fieldman, Rolapp & Associates hired Un Chu Reardon in Seattle and Rachel Chang-Kwei in Irvine, California.

Next week's deal will be sold at auction but Washington's state finance team says it is is agnostic about using negotiated or competitive sales to price bonds.

The state sold tax-exempt refunding debt at 2019 rates but won't deliver them until 2021 when the call date of the original bonds is reached.

Sound Transit says it can continue to collect taxes approved by its own voters in 2016 until bonds it backs are repaid.

Washington's overall economic strength and strong pension funding position outweighed troubles at Boeing as Moody's upgraded the state to Aaa.

It's Moody's first upgrade of the state since 1997.

Issuers in the nine-state Far West region sold $34.6 billion of municipal bonds in 2019's first six months.

RBC Capital Markets added Ian Parker as it positions itself to help issuers bring to market billions of dollars in authorized affordable housing debt.

This week's deal will prime the pump for another $2.5 billion in loans Freddie Mac plans to securitize in the next two to three years.

The region's 2018 new money bond sales were up 2% year-over-year, but refundings fell 57%.