News and Information from Bond Buyer

11/7/2016 10/31/2016 State Amount ($000s) Iss Amount ($000s) Chg in Amt ($000s) Arizona 2 $21,235 2 $236,720 -$215,485 Arkansas 2 27,150 4 36,500 -9,350 Colorado 4 51,450 8 95,901 -44,451 Kansas 7 22,682 10 51,550 -28,868 New Mexico 3 72,170 0 0 72,170 Oklahoma 2 20,720 4 172,835 -152,115 Texas 34 384,555 36 663,120 -278,565 Utah 2 49,255 0 0 49,255

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Government

Wayne County, Michigan is asking voters Tuesday for a millage proposal that would raise an additional $385 per student for its 33 school districts.

The city government of Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, shut down Monday due to lack of money, a path a municipal expert said other Puerto Rico municipalities will likely take in the next 12 months.

Standard & Poor’s is reassessing some existing ratings and deferring some new ones in certain sectors because of errors in its credit scoring models.

Ram Raju will resign as the head of New York City’s embattled Health + Hospitals unit, effective Nov. 30.

As voters in other Texas school districts consider bond issues to build new classrooms, those in the Houston Independent School District will decide how to hand over $162 million of tax revenue to the state.

CHICAGO – The junk-rated Chicago Public Schools will begin tapping $1 billion of Board of Education-approved new money and refunding borrowing authority in a deal expected as soon as next week.

Top-rated municipal bonds finished weaker on Monday, according to traders, who were ready for a $3.1 billion supply calendar amid a holiday shortened week. Financial markets are open for Election Day on Tuesday, but closed Friday for the Veterans Day holiday.

Indicator Last Report Forecast Actual Consumer Credit Aug.: +$26.8B Sept.: +$18.0B Sept.: +$19.3B

Consumer credit increased by $19.3 billion in September to $3.687 trillion, the Federal Reserve reported Monday.

Voters in Virginia Beach, Va., are split almost evenly on a light rail proposal to appear on Tuesday's ballot that could generate up to $8.3 billion in real-estate development in the seacoast town.

Scottrade has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle Financial Industry Regulatory Authority charges that it did not identify bonds as callable in approximately 5,000 municipal securities transactions.

Standards for commercial and industrial loans were "basically unchanged" in the third quarter of 2016, while standards for commercial real estate loans were tightened, according to the Fed's senior loan officer opinion survey, released Monday.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority’s bondholders face only minimal risks from a six-day transit strike in Philadelphia that ended early Monday, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

TSASC Inc. has scheduled a $1 billion sale of tobacco settlement bonds on Nov. 16 after a one-day retail period.