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With eye-popping infrastructure needs, market participants discussed how this will influence issuers' plans, from demand to disclosure.

Texas officials are eying ways to protect a massive state-funded school property tax cut from being eroded by local bond issues and tax increases.

PFM, Ramirez & Co. and other advisory firms are adding to rosters of municipal finance experts as the tax exemption hangs in the balance.

"This week's rate volatility made muni trading challenging as Treasury rates have been moving up and down abruptly on the back of inflation releases and tariff news," said Barclays strategist Mikhail Foux.

They say if the board continues its current approach there will be years more of litigation with outcomes showing the board's positions are "baseless."

Mitchell spent 20 years at J.P. Morgan before joining InspereX.

With questions and analysis still swirling around a deadly crash at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, concerns arise about enplanement levels, traffic patterns, and credit ratings affecting the region's major airports.

Yields and market volatility "positively correlated with trading volume," a research report published by MSRB finds.

In 2017, Congress moved from budget resolution to reconciliation legislation in less than six weeks.

Photos from The Bond Buyer's annual National Outlook Conference.

Sweetwater Union High's rocket-fast transformation from an accounting practices bad apple to ratings upgrades and positive outlooks is expected to boost its bond program.

Investors added $238.5 million to municipal bond mutual funds in the week ending Wednesday, following $1.124 billion of inflows the prior week, according to LSEG Lipper data.

As Congress begins hammering out the budget resolutions that will shape the country's fiscal future, muni lobbyists double down on efforts to keep the tax-exemption in place.

The legislation comes as the municipal market industry fends off threats to tax-exempt municipal bonds.

The rating for Baylor Scott & White Health in Texas was upgraded, while Presbyterian Healthcare Services in New Mexico was downgraded by Moody's.

A federal court has given an outside debtor-in-possession loan "superpriority" over the bondholders' lien.

Portfolio managers seem more sanguine about threats to the tax exemption from Congress.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine wants to raise the sports gaming tax to pay for stadiums and he does not want the state to issue bonds to finance stadium development.

The rising costs of federal debt, an impending budget showdown, and Congressional turmoil is highlighting the complex relationship between Treasury securities and municipal bonds.