Markets

After two hefty weeks, issuance in the municipal bond market should enter its holiday period and ride out the rest of the year.

The municipal market slogged through a long week of sell-offs as too much supply flooded into it all at once, prompting increases in muni bond indexes.

Investors sent money to municipal bond mutual funds for a sixth consecutive week, though at a decreased pace.

Trident Municipal Research, LLC and Savader Asset Advisors LLC have formed a strategic alliance to offer joint research content and service to investors.

Tax-exempt money market funds amassed $2.92 billion in new cash as total net assets rose to $275.72 billion in the week ended Dec. 10, according to The Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.

Fitch Ratings has assigned a stable outlook for 2013 to the colleges and universities sector, based on demand and enrollment, liquidity, and risk management.

Representatives from a rating agency and the investment community weighed in on the dramatic changes affecting the higher education business model at The Bond Buyer 501(c)3 conference.

Pension funding bonds are more likely to hurt, rather than help, the credit of the state or local government issuing them, according to a report from Moody's Investors Service.

Janney Capital Markets said in a report this week that the spreads on single family housing finance agency bonds are attractive, given reduced concerns of credit risk.