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The wave of mergers sweeping across the non profit health care sector the past two years is a positive trend for hospitals as well as for investors who like to buy hospital bonds, Fitch Ratings said in a new comment.
July 9 -
A tightening of municipal bond yields in various pockets of the secondary market highlighted an otherwise quiet trading session Monday.
July 9 -
If allegations that banks manipulated Libor prove to be true, those actions likely cost municipal bond issuers with swaps linked to the rate tens of millions of dollars, according to experts.
July 6
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Primary issuance in the municipal market should return to pre-holiday levels this week following its seasonal holiday volume slide. Industry estimates anticipate $7.07 billion reaching the market.
July 6 -
The law firm taps a former key operative for the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York, perennially a top issuer.
July 6 -
With negligible primary volume, meager activity in the secondary and thinned trading desks, the Fourth of July holiday put the municipal market on ice this week. Muni bond indexes mostly fell, reflecting a slight fall in triple-A yields.
July 5
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The holiday week slowed the tax-exempt market down to a crawl, but investors still invested in municipal bond mutual funds. Those funds that report their flows weekly saw $317 million of inflows for the week ended July 4.
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Municipal issuers back the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's proposal to require dealers to discontinue temporarily masking the exact par value of large muni bond trades on EMMA, while dealer and institutional investor groups oppose it.
July 2
