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S&P signaled the next lift needed for Detroit to shed junk status is within reach — in the next one to two years — by assigning a positive outlook to the BB-plus rating.

The Investment Company Institute reported investors pulled $377 million from to mutual funds in the week ending April 12, after $229 million of inflows the previous week.

"What are our options? You either pick these banks or you don't. If you don't, business shuts down. We stop building infrastructure," said state Treasurer John Schroder, the bond commission chair.

One underwriter called it a "violent inversion," given that the short end of the municipal and Treasury yield curves were so dislocated.

While the system took a hit during the COVID-19 pandemic, total traffic hit 94% of pre-pandemic levels in 2022. Traffic for the first two months of 2023 was 99% of levels in the same period of 2019.

While Nuveen is a storied and well-respected institution in our business, it did not define John Miller.

The "weakness in the secondary market will carry over into this week, which may lead to higher yields and wider spreads in the primary market," said CreditSights strategists Pat Luby and Sam Berzok.

Except for the riskiest sectors, high-yield credit fundamentals appear to be strong, but rising interest rates and fund outflows are dampening primary and secondary market activity.

Investors will be greeted Monday with a new-issue calendar estimated at $7.208 billion, led by $1.3 billion of GOs from bellwether Washington.

Nassau County is set to issue $269.54 million of general obligation bonds in two separate sales in the upcoming week.