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A lack of depth in the market is partly to blame for low trading activity, according to one manager.

Municipal supply slacks off this week as bond yields continue to inch higher.

The muni market continued its recent trend of weakening everyday, while the October labor data was strong, with nonfarm payrolls jumping to 250,000 versus the expected number of 190,000.

Munis will see the last weekly issuance roll in - as the past few days hasn’t gone as planned, with rising yields and rocky market conditions causing the biggest deal of the week to postpone the deal.

The municipal bond market is gearing up for what should be a busy week, with a bunch of good sized deals and one mega deal.

Municipal bond supply takes a leap forward next week as Chicago’s Sales Tax Securitization Corp.’s $1.31 billion deal headlines the new issue calendar.

Municipals remained mixed as deals from Phoenix airport and Chicago issuers came to market.

Municipals were mostly stronger at mid-session as the last of the week’s big deals came to market.

Volatility in the equity market spurred a flight to quality.

Municipals were stronger at mid-session as new supply started to trickle into the market.

Puerto Rico bonds gained in a mixed muni market as a revised fiscal plan projected a bigger surplus.

Municipal bonds were stronger on Monday ahead of this week’s rather paltry new issue supply calendar.

Municipal bond supply plunges to under $6 billion next week after seeing over $10 billion of new issues priced this week.

California revenues were $1.03 billion ahead of estimates in the first quarter of the fiscal year, according to the state's Department of Finance.

The last of the large municipal bond deals came to market on Thursday, led by a $1.5 billion healthcare offering from Ohio.

Proposition 4 would authorize $1.5 billion in state GO bonds for 13 childrens' hospitals around the state, eight of them private nonprofits.

Things began to quiet down in the municipal bond market on Thursday, as most of the big deals have come and gone for the week.

Investors saw more volume hit the market on Wednesday as California sold nearly $900 million of municipal bonds.

An initiative that would create a separate property tax assessment system for non-residential properties qualified for the 2020 ballot.

The New York City issuer led Tuesday's new issue supply surge as municipals traded mixed.