Southwest

Phoenix Plans to Issue $117.9 million of revenue bonds for Sky Harbor Airport, whose traffic appears to be growing after dominant carrier U.S. Airways merged with American Airlines.

Long before Puerto Rico's debt crisis, Arkansas' defaults were followed by a decade of refundings, a debt exchange, and ultimately Federal help to resolve its problems.

Voters in Texas will decide $9.1 billion of local bond proposals and a statewide constitutional amendment to divert $2.5 billion of sales tax revenue to transportation.

The IAH Public Facility Corp.' $49 million of bonds for a jail in Polk County, Texas, are one of a number of issues that have been audited by the IRS, which has claimed jail bonds are taxable private activity bonds.

Denver voters decide this week if they will extend taxes to help fund expansion of the downtown convention center and to upgrade the National Western Stock Show complex.

A three part series examining Arkansas' road to default, the state's efforts to resolve the crisis, and the similarities and differences with Puerto Rico today.

Investment banking firm Rice Financial Products Co. has hired seven people to bolster its sales and trading operations and expand its footprint in California, Illinois, Texas and New York.

San Antonio’s CPS Energy, one of the nation’s largest public power utilities, plans to price about $435 million of bonds in its only new money deal of the year.

First Southwest Co., the top financial advisor in the Southwest region, expects to be fully combined with the former Southwest Securities under the name Hilltop Securities by January.

An upgrade from Standard & Poor’s and a triple-A guarantee from the Texas Permanent School Fund will enhance the appeal of Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District’s $344 million of general obligation bonds.