News and Information from Bond Buyer

8/25/2016 8/18/2016 State # Iss Amount ($000) # Iss Amount ($000) Chg in Amt ($000) Alaska 0 0 0 $0 $0 California 9 536290 13 1,066,345 -530,055 Hawaii 0 0 0 0 0 Idaho 2 17955 0 0 17,955 Montana 0 0 0 0 0 Nevada 0 0 0 0 0 Oregon 0 0 8 561,075 -561,075 Washington 4 372170 3 232,400 139,770 Wyoming 0 0 0 0 0

Indicator Last Report Forecast Actual Durable Goods Orders June: -4.0% July: +3.6% July: +4.4% ex-Trans June: -0.5% July: +0.4% July: +1.5% Initial Jobless Claims 8/13: 262,000 8/20: 254,000 8/20: 261,000 Continuing Claims 8/6: 2.175M 8/13: 2.130M 8/13: 2.145M

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Illinois achieved about $56 million in present value savings on the refunding portion of its nearly $550 high-grade, sales tax backed deal that sold competitively Thursday.

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In the week ended Aug. 25, the weekly average yield to maturity of the Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index fell one basis point to 3.75% from 3.76% in the previous week. The BB40 Index is based on the price of 40 long-term bonds.

Top rated municipal bonds finished weaker on Thursday, according to traders, as the last week’s new issue supply sold in the primary, led by Massachusetts, Illinois and Pennsylvania sellers.

The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday it is seeking applications for vacancies on the Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (ACT).

Jackson, Miss.’s water and sewer revenue bonds were downgraded four notches by S&P Global Ratings partly due to the lack of initiatives to improve revenues.

California bill sparked by San Francisco embezzlement heads to governor's desk.

Ernesto Lanza, formerly a shareholder with the law firm Greenberg Traurig, joined the D.C. office of Clark Hill as a senior counsel in August.

South Florida can expect Zika-related travel advisories to hurt tourism and related tax revenues, S&P Global Ratings said. The only question is by how much.

Maryland and Federal Transit Administration officials want a federal judge to restore funding for the $5.6 billion Purple Line light rail public-private partnership project that was shut down by court order in early August.

The Treasury Department auctioned $28 billion of seven-year notes, with a 1 3/8% coupon and a 1.423% high yield, a price of 99.681269.

The closing of the Trump Taj Mahal will add to the thousands of hospitality industry jobs Atlantic City has already lost since 2014, according to the latest South Jersey Economic Review released by Stockton University.