Markets

The odds of non-housing projects receiving private activity bond funding in California are slimmer as state officials focus on its housing crisis.

It marked the 40th straight week of positive flows into the long-term funds and brought the total inflows for this year near $82 billion. Exchanged-traded funds saw $168M of inflows.

Over the past year, Lumesis has expanded the capabilities of its DIVER suite of muni-focused business and regulatory solutions.

Triple-A yield curves were unchanged on the day and mostly have not budged but a basis point in spots since the end of November.

Coming off last week's $19.5 million influx of weekly new issues, supply this week is lower as the market watches the Federal Open Market Committee meeting.

The U.S. labor shortage is bearing down on hospitals' bottom line and shows no signs of letting up next year according to rating agencies' 2022 sector outlooks.

There are $8.127 billion of negotiated deals on tap and a mere $367.4 million of competitive loans slated, none over $100 million. Thirty-day visible supply totals $9.9 billion and net negative supply is at $8.4 billion.

Chicago's captured a new low in recent history on tax-exempt spreads but the taxables, which were downsized by $500 million, faced a tougher road amid Treasury volatility.

The $35 million of tax-exempt and taxable notes were privately placed with Nuveen.

State officials will wrap up a busy year a sale that includes a social bonds component.