Southwest

DALLAS — An Arkansas district judge gave the state the go-ahead Tuesday to tabulate the votes on a measure lifting the constitutional ceiling on public debt interest rates.

DALLAS — Standard & Poor’s has revised its outlook to negative from stable on Glendale, Ariz.’s general obligation bonds.

DALLAS — Southwest Airlines, which after its launch in 1971 built its entire business plan around Love Field, will issue $310 million of revenue bonds to expand operations at the historic Dallas airport.

DALLAS — Coloradans will decide today whether the state has issued its last bonds, as voters throughout the nation deliver their verdict on debt and taxes.

DALLAS — The Dallas Independent School District will take $1.03 billion of bonds to market the week before Thanksgiving in a competitive sale that will exhaust more than $2.7 billion of total debt approved by voters in 2008 and 2002.

DALLAS — The fast-growing Round Rock Independent School District north of Austin is preparing to issue $104 million of debt, including $92 million of Build America Bonds, as Texas school districts face prospects for greater budget austerity.

DALLAS — Fitch Ratings downgraded Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to A-plus from AA-minus as it prepares to issue $301 million for its $2.7 billion terminal renovation program.

DALLAS — Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport will issue the first $301 million of revenue bonds this week toward a $2 billion renovation of the original terminals that opened 36 years ago.

DALLAS — San Antonio’s CPS Energy is planning its fourth and largest issue of Build America Bonds on Thursday as it faces an Internal Revenue Service audit of a previous BAB deal.

DALLAS — The Texas economy received a vote of confidence Thursday in a special report from Standard & Poor’s, despite a growing budget shortfall in the coming year.