The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority heads to market on Monday with the week’s biggest deal — a $2 billion green bond offering.
Ipreo estimates total bond volume for the holiday-shortened week at $4.18 billion, which consists of $3.96 billion of negotiated deals and $217.1 million of competitive sales.
Secondary market
U.S. Treasuries were little changed on Monday. The yield on the two-year Treasury was flat from 1.73% on Friday, the 10-year Treasury yield was steady from 2.35% and the yield on the 30-year Treasury decreased to 2.78% from 2.79%.
Top-shelf municipal bonds ended flat on Friday. The yield on the 10-year benchmark muni general obligation was unchanged from 2.00% on Thursday, while the 30-year GO yield was steady from 2.69%, according to the final read of Municipal Market Data’s triple-A scale.
On Friday, the 10-year muni-to-Treasury ratio was calculated at 85.0% compared with 84.9% on Thursday, while the 30-year muni-to-Treasury ratio stood at 96.2% versus 96.1%, according to MMD.
AP-MBIS 10-year muni at 2.280%, 30-year at 2.791%
The Associated Press-MBIS municipal non-callable 5% GO benchmark scale was stronger in early trade.
The 10-year muni benchmark yield dropped to 2.280% on Monday from the final read of 2.288% on Friday, according to
The AP-MBIS benchmark index is a yield curve built on market data aggregated from MBIS member firms and is updated hourly on the
MSRB: Previous session's activity
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board reported 37,148 trades on Friday on volume of $10.14 billion.
Prior week's actively traded issues
Revenue bonds comprised 55.53% of new issuance in the week ended Nov. 17, down from 55.82% in the previous week, according to
Some of the most actively traded bonds by type were from Puerto Rico, Ohio and New Jersey.
In the GO bond sector, the Puerto Rico 8s of 2035 were traded 26 times. In the revenue bond sector, the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority 4.5s of 2048 were traded 70 times. And in the taxable bond sector, the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority 3.836s of 2047 were traded 17 times.
Primary Market
Bank of America Merrill Lynch is set to price the N.Y. MTA’s $2 billion of Series 2017C transportation revenue refunding green bonds on Monday.
The deal is rated A1 by Moody’s Investors Service, AA-minus by S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings and AA-plus by Kroll Bond Rating Agency.
Also Monday, BAML is slated to price the North Broward Hospital District, Fla.’s $318 million of Series 2017B revenue bonds for Broward Health.
The deal is rated Baa2 by Moody’s and BBB-plus by S&P.
And Piper Jaffray is expected to price the Geary County Unified School District No. 475, Kan.’s $119.62 million of general obligation bonds consisting of $63.5 million of Series 2017A GOs, $41.5 million of Series 2017C taxable GOs and $14.62 million of Series 2017B refunding GOs.
The deal is rated Aa2 by Moody’s.
NYC plans $850M GO sale on Dec. 6
New York City plans to sell about $850 million of general obligation refunding bonds on Wednesday, Dec. 6 after a two-day retail order period.
Proceeds from the tax-exempt fixed-rate bond sale will be used to refund outstanding debt.
The bonds will be priced by the city’s underwriting syndicate, led by book-running senior manager Ramirez & Co. with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, J.P. Morgan Securities, Loop Capital Markets, RBC Capital Markets and Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co. serving as co-senior managers.
Bond Buyer reports 30-day visible supply
The Bond Buyer's 30-day visible supply calendar increased $642.7 million to $6.83 billion on Monday. The total is comprised of $1.33 billion of competitive sales and $5.50 billion of negotiated deals.
Data appearing in this article from Municipal Bond Information Services, including the AP-MBIS municipal bond index, is available on The Bond Buyer Data Workstation.
