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Municipal Market Analytics' view of Chicago's bonds turns further south as the city looks to solve a deep budget hole.

Currently, the maximum maturity period for bonds under the MLF is 36 months, up from 24 months when the program was first created in April.

The public-private partnership Alabama is using to build three new prisons is estimated to cost nearly $2.64 billion over 30 years, up from $900 million.

New York's law permitting municipalities to extend rollover periods on bond anticipation notes provides budget flexibility, but it's unclear how it will impact long-term debt.

The fluid nature of municipal credit during the coronavirus is countering what are 'fairly solid technical factors' for the market while participants await news out of Washington for more stimulus.

Despite a positive employment report last week, Chair Powell predicted a slow recovery with COVID-19 still not under control.

State officials would break up the Kennedy Plaza depot in Providence and create smaller hubs around the city, using bond money voters approved six years ago.

The regulatory road ahead is as uncertain and risky to banks as the pandemic.

The numbers were not as bad as first forecast, with sales tax revenues, which account for 59% of the budget, inching up.

Puerto Rico's governor promotes an insider to run the power authority.

As the long Labor Day holiday beckoned, munis remained mostly steady in quiet trading. Cal trades up.

The governor cited budget and social justice benefits from a measure to legalize cannabis, which officials say could bring in $600 million of new revenues.

Charles Evans, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said the economy won't be back at pre-pandemic levels until near the end of 2022.

Refinitiv Lipper reported $139.364 million of muni fund inflows, the 17th week in a row of positive results, but the lowest gain since July.

The stop-and-go 2020 legislative session left some lawmakers feeling there is unfinished business in Sacramento.

Regulators found Stifel effected 56 pairs of pre-arranged transactions and the firm did not have a supervisory system reasonably designed to catch that activity.

The short-term Municipal Liquidity Facility does not meet the city's needs, the mayor said while repeating his call for borrowing authority from New York State.

The Florida State Board of Administration Finance Corp. deal was upsized by $1 billion on a day that gave muni buyers a wide variety of paper to choose from.

Although there was moderate growth of activity in the economy, continued volatility and uncertainty gives some cause for concern about the overall outlook.

The paper filing requirement for Form 8038-CP was a particular problem early in the pandemic because IRS paper processing centers were shut down from mid-March until sometime in June.