News and Information from Bond Buyer

DASNY finished the first half of 2018 as the nation’s second largest issuer with $3.2 billion in bonds sold.

Massachusetts and Texas will be in the market next week as the unofficial summer season winds down during the last week before Labor Day.

At the moment, gradual rate hikes remain appropriate, given no signs that inflation will accelerate beyond 2%, despite broad risk factors.

The proposed Treasury rules would limit states' use of charitable deductions as workarounds for the $10,000 cap on the federal deduction for state and local taxes.

James J. O'Neil received a 12-month suspension from the market for his role in the flipping and kickback scheme.

Legislation pending in both the Senate and House would eliminate private activity bond volume caps for water and sewer projects.

The weekly average yield to maturity of The Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index, which is based on 40 long-term bond prices, fell to 4.01% from 4.02% the week before.

President Trump's nominee Elad Roisman is a step closer to becoming an SEC commissioner.

The New York State Thruway Authority is on the road to completing a decades-long reconstruction project for a heavily-traveled stretch of Interstate-95.

Deals from New York and Massachusetts led the new issue slate on Thursday as the last of the week’s supply came to market.

Keely Bosler will take the helm at the department, replacing Michael Cohen.

Citi's assessment is conditioned on pension obligation bonds being part of a package to tackle the city's pension liabilities.

S&P Global Ratings looked to 2017's California wildfires to understand the credit implications of this year's blazes.

Issuance was down 27% in the region from the first half of 2017, and almost 30% in California, its largest market.

Mark O. Norell, a veteran tax-exempt bond lawyer has been named a partner in the firm’s public finance department in New York.

Municipal bond market participants are seeing the last of this week’s new issues come to market on Thursday, led by issuers from New York and Massachusetts.

Muni market groups claimed victory after federal banking regulators moved to treat munis like all other types of Level 2B HQLA.

The now-defunct unregistered broker-dealer Core Performance Management, LLC, and four of its former employees settled fraud and MSRB rule violations with the SEC for engaging in municipal bond flipping and kickback scheme.

With all the wrongdoing by powerful players in the public and private sectors, it appears very likely that these players may owe lots of money to bondholders.

Respondents to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's monthly manufacturing survey reported slightly weaker activity in August.