Southwest

A day after Texans elected State Sen. Glenn Hegar to succeed her, state Comptroller Susan Combs reported that Texas revenues rose 12.9% in October to $2.41 billion, the second highest total for the year.

The North Texas Tollway Authority's $461 million of refunding bonds were ten times oversubscribed in a Nov. 5 pricing, bringing the toll road operator savings of nearly 11%.

On the morning after Denton, Texas, voters approved new limits on drilling operations in the city, an oil and gas industry association went to court seeking an injunction.

The crash of Virgin Galactic's Spaceship Two is a setback for New Mexico's publicly financed SpacePort America, which is to be the location for commercial space flights, but the bonds issued to build the facility remain a safe investment, an official said.

With the economy riding high, issuers in Texas are hoping voters keep their pocketbooks open long enough to approve more than $6.5 billion of bond issues on the ballot Nov. 4.

Good Shepherd Medical Center's failure to complete an assets sale brings a downgrade to BB-minus and a negative outlook from Standard & Poor's.

With the economy riding high, issuers in Texas are hoping voters keep their pocketbooks open long enough to approve more than $6.5 billion of bond issues on the ballot Nov. 4.

In the last report before the Nov. 4 election, Kansas reported that revenues for October fell $23 million below expectations.

North Texas Tollway Authority returns to the market with $499.5 million of revenue refunding bonds that are expected to provide significant savings.

San Antonio's City Council unanimously approved a 142-mile pipeline to supply water via a private operator and agreed to issue more than $500 million of electric utility refunding bonds in 2015.