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Indicator Last Report Forecast Actual Wholesale Inventories Feb.: -0.6% March: +0.1% March: +0.1% Wholesale Sales Feb.: -0.2% March: +0.3% March: +0.7%
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Municipal bond traders are seeing the start of the week's big new issues come to market, led on Tuesday by several large water deals from issuers in Texas and California.
May 10
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Small businesses were more optimistic in April, as the Index of Small Business Optimism rose to 93.6 in April from 92.6 in March, according to the National Federation of Independent Business' monthly index published Tuesday.
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Detroits Grand Bargain strategy leveraging civic foundation support during its 2013 bankruptcy and how this unique approach could be a model for other distressed cities facing major pension burdens is discussed by Howard Husock, vice president for policy research at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Husock speaks with reporter Andrew Coen about his new report The Pension Grand Bargain: A Reform Model for Cities and how Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, St. Louis and Buffalo can benefit from Detroits plan (1:43). Husock also touches on if galvanizing charities to address pension liabilities can also be achieved at the state level (7:45) and what changes he has noticed in his more than two decades of public policy research (11:48).
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May. 10, 2016 Southwest: Plain/Insured GO Yield Curve* State Ratings One-Year Five-Year 10-Year 30-Year Arizona Aa3/AA+/NR 0.61 1.08 1.79 2.73 Arkansas Aa1/AA/NR 0.57 1 1.66 2.58 Colorado Aa1/AA/NR 0.58 1.06 1.75 2.69 Kansas Aa2/AA/NR 0.58 1.05 1.75 2.67 New Mexico Aaa/AA+/NR 0.58 1 1.67 2.61 Oklahoma Aa2/AA+/AA+ 0.58 1.06 1.77 2.71 Texas Aaa/AAA/AAA 0.58 1.03 1.71 2.59 Utah Aaa/AAA/AAA 0.56 0.94 1.56 2.48
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5/9/2016 5/2/2016 State Amount ($000s) Iss Amount ($000s) Chg in Amt ($000s) Arizona 5 $71,885 6 $220,025 -$148,140 Arkansas 4 14,855 5 22,795 -7,940 Colorado 3 194,725 6 377,665 -182,940 Kansas 8 92,645 7 57,025 35,620 New Mexico 1 39,870 0 0 39,870 Oklahoma 47 143,675 46 129,180 14,495 Texas 43 1,821,580 27 1,607,042 214,538 Utah 1 31,500 1 21,335 10,165
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Detroit Public Schools is moving perilously closer to a possible default or Chapter 9 filing, Moody's Investors Service said in a commentary.
May 9 -
The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority sees an opportunity for healthy savings through refunding bonds issued just five years ago.
May 9
- Illinois
The Chicago Summer Business Institute has 200 applications from high school students looking for an entrance to the business world but only 100 paid internship openings a shortage organizers say highlights the need for an upcoming fundraiser.
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The junk-rated Chicago Public Schools doesn't meet any of five state criteria to warrant further state intervention, the Illinois State Board of Education has found.
May 9
- Virginia
Virginia plans to borrow $2.24 billion to finance a wide variety of state and higher education projects, according to a bill signed by Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Friday.
May 9
- Maine
Portland, Maine's minor-league hockey team is skipping town for Springfield, Mass. just five years after voters approved a $33 million bond plan to modernize the team's home arena.
May 9
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Top-rated municipal bonds finished mostly steady on Monday, traders said, as the market got set for more volume to come its way this week.
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