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Nonprofit health giant Catholic Health Initiatives fell one notch to BBB-plus on S&P Global Ratings' scale Thursday due to a weakened financial profile, analysts said.

Facing continuing revenue shortages, Oklahoma was downgraded to to AA from AA-plus by S&P Global Ratings.

Despite the U.S. Attorney General’s reversal of plans to end use of private, for-profit prisons, the bonds used to finance the facilities still bear the risk of abrupt policy changes, according to S&P Global Ratings.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s veto of a bill that would have increased income taxes leaves the state still struggling to balance its budget, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

Building Trump’s wall on the Mexico border could raise costs for other projects in the border region by impacting material and labor prices.

The San Antonio Water System has saved $55 million through bond refunding since October, officials for public utility said.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s veto of a bill that could have raised $1 billion over two years withstood an attempted override in the Kansas Senate.

Texas lawmakers have filed almost two dozen bills in an effort to derail a privately funded high-speed rail line.

A decision to close the coal-fired Navajo Generating Station is a positive credit factor for its operator and co-owners, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Reason Foundation says $12 billion privately financed Texas bullet train proposal would require public funding.