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Puerto Rico Gov. Jenniffer González Colón filed suit to end the island's contract with LUMA Energy for electrical transmission and distribution.

The well-regarded pediatric hospital system is not alone in facing downgrades amid the myriad challenges healthcare has experienced in recent years.

Kansas City Federal Reserve President Jeffrey Schmid and Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said in statements Friday that their dissents from this week's interest rate decision were spurred by inflation concerns and a lack of sufficient economic data.

Both Janney and Huntington are among the top 30 underwriters in the muni market and are neck in neck.

"With its third straight rate cut, the Fed is sending a clear message: it's no longer just watching inflation — it's managing risk," said Gina Bolvin, president of Bolvin Wealth Management Group.

The compliance outreach program for municipal advisors and dealers, will be hosted jointly by the SEC, MSRB and FINRA.

A vote Wednesday by Chicago's city council would speed up budget hearings and signals that a majority of alders may go their own way on the budget.

"We sued to take a stand against the SROs on principle," an ASA spokesperson said Wednesday in a reference to both the MSRB and FINRA.

Muni yields were little changed, and have barely moved over the past several trading sessions, said Kim Olsan, senior fixed income portfolio manager at NewSquare.

Omaha Public Power District will go to market the week of Jan. 5 with about $164 million of Series 2026A separate electric system revenue refunding bonds.

The state comptroller's office purchased about $5 million of shares in a bitcoin exchange traded fund last month for a newly created strategic reserve.

"Ultimately, this report is essential because member firm compliance protects investors and safeguards the integrity of our markets," FINRA's Greg Ruppert said.

Issuers mostly avoided pricing deals in the previous weeks the Fed met this year, but that's not the case this week, said Pat Luby, head of municipal strategy at CreditSights, and Wilson Lees, an analyst at the firm.

States face broadening credit challenges, and while local governments have shown resilience, school districts are more at risk, S&P Global Ratings said.

This is the first upgrade of bonds supported by assets currently or formerly in the Puerto Rico government's hands since the passage of PROMESA in 2016.

Much has changed since October and most economists are sure the FOMC will lower rates by 25 basis points this week, with dissenting votes expected.

Cintra submitted a proposal calling for four new tolled managed lanes on I-76 that would be structured as a $5 billion, 50-year design-build-finance-operate-maintain P3.

SRI International had its outstanding bonds downgraded to Baa1 because of its exposure to declining federal grants.

C. Christopher Trower was the lead attorney before the Supreme Court in a case that upheld states' rights to preferential tax treatment of their own bonds.

FINRA found that the firm failed to include the non-transaction-based compensation indicator when reporting 12,066 municipal securities transactions.