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The city has again proven to have a resilient economy, with better than budgeted revenues, said Howard Cure, a partner and director of municipal bond research at Evercore Wealth Management LLC.
March 5 -
The city and its related issuers picked financial advisors to work on upcoming bond deals, including GO issuances, TFA deals and water authority sales.
March 4 -
Municipals look poised to close out February a touch in the black following a more constructive tone Thursday after being in a 'holding pattern' for much of the past two weeks.
February 29 -
Issuance is already slated to be healthy next week, with some large deals on the calendar.
February 28 -
Munis should remain well bid until issuance picks up "dramatically," said Nuveen's Anders S. Persson and Daniel J. Close.
February 27 -
CreditSights said states with the largest payments are Texas at $2 billion, Pennsylvania at $1.5 billion, South Carolina at $1.3 billion and California at $1.2 billion
February 26 -
The bonds are rated Aa2 by Moody's Investors Service, AA by S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings and AA-plus by Kroll Bond Rating Agency. All four rating agencies have a stable outlook on the credit.
February 26 -
Meanwhile in New York, the state doubles down on climate investments and restricts investments in some big oil and gas companies as the city blasts several big banks as they pull out from the Climate Action 100+ initiative.
February 16 -
It's a color-coded controversy about how far the fight over ESG and green investing precepts will affect public finance this year, with the latest skirmishes involving Bank of America and New York and New Hampshire.
February 6 -
"Some have called on us to use our rainy-day fund to cover asylum seeker needs. We do not agree and neither do our city and state comptrollers as well as the bond rating agencies and fiscal experts," said NYC Mayor Eric Adams.
January 17