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Moody's boosted the university to A1, an event that may have been overshadowed by the men's basketball team's Final Four run.

As muni investors looked ahead to another week of limited supply, a report from BlackRock recommended taking a flexible strategy.

The latest proposed fiscal plan may allow up to 29.4% of debt to be paid through fiscal year 2023.

The city has underfunded pensions and plans to increase spending to support its school district.

Some of the oomph for multifamily housing bonds comes from additional federal funding for public housing agencies which are partners in these bond deals while the remainder comes from programmatic changes in the law.

Panelists at the national bond summit in Miami discuss how communities can address climate change and new transportation modes.

Historic redevelopment projects that were on life-support are moving forward after historic tax credits were retained in a rewrite of the federal tax code.

Securities industry profits surged in 2017, as the the bonus pool hit an estimated $31.4 billion, according to an New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

The municipal bond market on Monday is eyeing this week's small holiday calendar of new issues, which is dominated by taxable deals.

The Constitution State is bringing the largest negotiated deal to a supply starved market this week — although the state is faced with fiscal challenges, it hopes the big sale satisfies investors, during a time when munis are attractive but supply is scarce.

Texas factory activity, as measured by the production index, “continued to expand in March, albeit at a markedly slower pace than last month.”

Public entities are especially susceptible to email scams because open records and open meetings laws and transparent operations make it easy for criminals to conduct reconnaissance on employees and transactions.

The Chicago Fed National Activity Index for February increased to 0.88 from a downwardly revised 0.02 in January.

The credit unions say that Puerto Rico used fraud and pressure to get them to buy the government bonds.

The nonprofit hospital chain expects significant savings even though it must issue taxable debt to refund tax-exempt bonds.

Municipals will see yet another week of sub-$4 billion issuance, as taxables take the top spot on the calendar.

City and state groups credited Congress for supporting programs the administration wanted zeroed out, including the Federal Transit Administration’s Capital Investment Grants program, which will get $2.6 billion.

The Philadelphia School District received approval for the framework of a 5% budget increase from its lame duck governing body.

Detroit's affordable housing plan would give developers access to private activity bonds associated with Michigan’s 4% tax credit program.

A day after seeing the market rally and strengthen by five basis points on the long end, munis were quiet and flat ahead of another week of lackluster volume.