The municipal market was winding up the week ahead of Friday’s holiday on a steady note as traders eyed the healthy supply calendar.
Ipreo estimates volume for the upcoming week at $7.85 billion, up from a revised total of $3.40 billion in the prior week, according to updated data from Thomson Reuters.
The calendar is composed of $6.62 billion of negotiated deals and $1.23 billion of competitive sales.
Primary market
Headlining next week’s slate is the big tobacco deal coming out of New Jersey.
Jefferies is set to price the Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp.’s $3.22 billion of Series 2018A senior and Series 2018B subordinate tobacco settlement bonds on Wednesday after a one-day retail order period.
The deal will refund all of the corporation’s outstanding tobacco bonds, which were issued in 2007.
Citigroup is expected to price the San Diego County, Calif., Regional Transportation Commission’s $538 million of Series 2018A subordinate sales tax revenue short-term notes, limited tax bonds, due 2021, on Wednesday.
And Siebert Cisneros Shank is set to price the New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority’s $425 million of Fiscal 2018 Series EE water and sewer system second resolution revenue bonds on Wednesday after a one-day retail order period.
In the competitive arena, the biggest deal of the week is coming from Albany County, N.Y., which is selling $152 million of Series 2018 various purpose general obligation bonds on Wednesday.
Week’s primary market
Loop Capital Markets received the official award on Connecticut’s $526.44 million of GO and GO refunding bonds institutions.
The deal is rated A1 by Moody’s Investors Service, A-plus by S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings and AA-minus by Kroll Bond Rating Agency.
Connecticut’s bond deal:
Bond Buyer 30-day visible supply at $11.53B
The Bond Buyer's 30-day visible supply calendar increased $1.47 billion to $11.53 billion on Thursday. The total is comprised of $3.24 billion of competitive sales and $8.29 billion of negotiated deals.
Week's actively traded issues
Some of the most actively traded bonds by type in the week ended March 29 were from Puerto Rico, California and New Jersey issuers, according to
In the GO bond sector, the Puerto Rico Commonwealth 8s of 2035 traded 120 times. In the revenue bond sector, the California Health Facilities Financing Authority 4s of 2042 traded 46 times. And in the taxable bond sector, New Jersey’s Rutgers University 4.146s of 2048 traded 30 times.
Week's actively quoted issues
Puerto Rico and California names were among the most actively quoted bonds in the week ended March 29, according to Markit.
On the bid side, the Puerto Rico GO 8s of 2035 were quoted by 61 unique dealers. On the ask side, the California taxable 7.55s of 2039 were quoted by 111 dealers. And among two-sided quotes, the Puerto Rico GO 8s of 2033 were quoted by 31 unique dealers.
ICI: Long-term muni funds see $769M inflow
Long-term municipal bond funds saw an inflow of $769 million in the week ended March 21, the Investment Company Institute reported on Wednesday.
This followed inflows of $703 million into the tax-exempt mutual funds in the week ended March 14 and inflows of $214 million, $110 million and $481 million in the three prior weeks.
Taxable bond funds saw estimated inflows of $4.53 billion in the latest reporting week, after seeing inflows of $7.74 billion in the previous week.
ICI said the total estimated outflows to long-term mutual funds and exchange-traded funds were $7.40 billion for the week ended March 21 after inflows of $33.08 billion in the prior week.
Tax-exempt money market funds saw outflows
Tax-exempt money market funds experienced outflows of $1.27 billion, lowering total net assets to $133.88 billion in the week ended March 27, according to The Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com. This followed an outflow of $240.7 million on to $135.15 billion in the previous week.
The average, seven-day simple yield for the 198 weekly reporting tax-exempt funds increased to 0.85% from 0.74% the previous week.
The total net assets of the 829 weekly reporting taxable money funds increased $9.03 billion to $2.663 trillion in the week ended March 26, after an outflow of $17.65 billion to $2.654 trillion the week before.
The average, seven-day simple yield for the taxable money funds increased to 1.23% from 1.14% from the prior week.
Overall, the combined total net assets of the 1,027 weekly reporting money funds increased $7.76 billion to $2.797 trillion in the week ended March 26, after outflows of $17.89 billion to $2.790 trillion in the prior week.
Previous session's activity
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board reported 43,613 trades on Wednesday on volume of $14.07 billion.
California, New York and Texas were the states with the most trades, with the Golden State taking 17.396% of the market, the Empire State taking 13.531% and the Lone Star State taking 9.573%.
Treasury to sell $90B bills
The Treasury Department on Friday said it will sell $90 billion of 91- and 182-day bills on Monday.
The $48 billion of re-opened 13-week bills are dated April 5 with an original issue date of Jan. 4, and are due on July 5. There are $42 billion of bonds outstanding.
The $42 billion of 26-week bills are dated April 5, and are due on Oct. 4. There are no bonds outstanding.
Data appearing in this article from Municipal Bond Information Services, including the MBIS municipal bond index, is available on The Bond Buyer Data Workstation.
