News and Information from Bond Buyer

The weekly average yield to maturity of The Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index fell to 4.23% from 4.28% last week.

After a week that offered under $1 billion of deals, the market will look ahead to almost $6 billion of supply.

Chicago Public Schools is selling more than $1 billion of GOs, capital improvement tax bonds, and notes.

After last week's revelations about alleged wrongdoing by CMEEC officers, the issuer has appointed a special committee to oversee its own investigation.

Tom Wolf's full plate includes a projected $1.7 billion deficit, with the state having already used one-time revenue measures such as tobacco and gambling.

Fires haven't sparked a secondary-market sell-off, as investors "are either unconcerned or don't fully understand" the extent of the damage.

Even as stocks turned higher on Wednesday, municipal bonds remained stronger before the Thanksgiving holiday.

Moody's Investors Service now assigns a positive outlook to its A1 rating for the private Pennsylvania university.

The University of Michigan's final November consumer sentiment index reading was 97.5, compared to the preliminary November 98.3.

Existing home sales were up 1.4% to a seasonally adjusted 5.22 million-unit rate in October from an unrevised 3.4% decline to a 5.15 million sales pace the previous month.

The composite of the Leading Economic Index was up 0.1% in October following an upwardly revised 0.6% gain in September.

As stocks continued to plunge, municipal bonds remained stronger along with Treasurys.

One Puerto Rico Oversight Board member said that approving the COFINA deal was the board's safest choice.

Once a high-profile story of fiscal mismanagement, D.C. is now providing an example other large cities are exploring for themselves.

Chicago expects to add more than $9 billion in O'Hare debt in the coming years to upgrade the airport's terminals.

The three previous PAFRs won financial reporting awards from the Government Finance Officers Association.

Municipal bonds continued to show strength along with Treasuries as equity prices continued their downward spiral.

Mike Barlow and Cornelia Levy-Bencheton, authors of Smart Cities, Smart Future, discuss the impact of this global movement of technology and innovation for municipalities, on infrastructure and P3s and for municipal green bonds. Chip Barnett hosts.

The region's services sector expanded at a faster pace, as the general business conditions index grew to 43.3 in November from 37.6 in October.

It is critical that financial players start to pay very close attention and start reviewing their documents.