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The Better Housing Foundation's Chicagoland suburban bond portfolios are now experiencing bond covenant and payment defaults.

Alan Schankel, a longtime municipal bond analyst and managing director at Janney Capital Markets in Philadelphia, has retired.

It has been a couple of years since the market has seen an active January to start the year.

The state expects to set senior and co-manager pools with up to 15 firms each for an initial four-year term.

Two Federal Reserve Bank presidents were positive about the economy in 2020, but offered a look at what worries them.

S&P dropped the the nation's second-most-populous county — one of many Illinois governments struggling with retirement plan funding — to A-plus from AA-minus.

The Windy City is looking to add even more savings to a $1.3 billion debt refinancing with a tender invitation for some of its older, higher-yielding bonds. “The tender is just gravy,” City CFO Jennie Huang Bennett said last week.

Attendees at The Bond Buyer’s Deal of the Year ceremony look ahead to the new year and discuss what they feel will be the biggest stories of 2020.

Attendees at The Bond Buyer’s Deal of the Year ceremony talk about what issues they think had the biggest impact in municipal finance last year.

Demand for municipal bonds is much stronger in 2020 than it was to end 2019, illustrated by record inflows into the asset class in the latest reporting week.