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Holders tendered about 75% of U.S. Virgin Islands Public Finance Authority bonds that were eligible for a tender offer.

Moody's said its rating upgrades reflect the Jacksonville, Florida, utility's sound financial performance and governance changes.

Raymond James has agreed to acquire SumRidge Partners, a fixed income market maker dealing in investment-grade and high-yield municipal bonds.

With massive secondary selling pressure and a larger calendar, credit spreads are likely to continue to widen.

Washington University will sell $1 billion of new money with tentative plans to offer a mix of 30-, 40-, and 100-year paper.

Dallas Fort Worth International Airport will bring its first new money issue since 2017 to the municipal bond market next week, buoyed by an rating upgrade.

Next week's potential volume is slated to be more than $8 billion, led by $1.25 billion of taxable and tax-exempt future tax-secured subordinate bonds from the New York City Transitional Finance Authority.

Ten states, includeing five in the Southeast, pre-pandemic employment levels in January, according to Fitch Ratings. In an update, the U.S. Labor Department reported Florida’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 3.3% in February.

Outflows continued, with Refinitiv Lipper reporting investors shed $1.503 billion from municipal bond mutual funds in the week, following outflows of $2.136 billion in the previous week. High-yield saw small inflows.

Nuveen is asking a judge to toss Preston Hollow Capital's defamation claims as a summer trial looms.