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The Suffolk County Legislature passed a $2.9 billion budget Wednesday that was balanced by including $117 million in one-time revenue projections.

Standard & Poor's has withdrawn its D rating on a Glendale, Ariz., plant designed to convert trash into energy after the project defaulted on its October bond payment.

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Municipal bond funds reported inflows for the fifth week in a row, according to Lipper data released on Thursday. Weekly reporting funds experienced $62.996 million of inflows in the week ended Nov. 4, after inflows of $349.038 million in the previous week.

Three of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority's four creditor groups adopted a formal debt restructuring agreement with the authority.

The weekly average yield to maturity of The Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index, which is based on 40 long-term bond prices, rose one basis point to 4.35% in the week ended Nov. 5, from 4.34% in the prior week.

Kansas revenues have fallen short of projections for the fourth consecutive month, according to the state's October report.

Standard & Poor's revised its outlook on the Iowa Board of Regents' University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics to stable from negative after a decision to trim capital spending.

Florida's second-most populous county and one of its tiniest cities bucked the official state position on carbon emissions by joining a coalition supporting the federal government's Clean Power Plan.

The Connecticut Teachers' Retirement Board approved an actuary's recommendation to reduce the investment return assumption from 8.5% to 8%.

Moody's Investors Service dropped Minnesota-based Amherst H. Wilder Foundation's rating by two levels to A3 over its fiscal struggles that have led to endowment draws.

Fitch Ratings, reframing its view of the special taxes that support local California GO bonds, assigned its AAA rating to a school district based solely on the special tax without regard to the district's budget and operations.

Prices of top-quality municipal bonds finished weaker on Thursday, traders said, as the last of the week's big new issues came to market led off by a large sale from an issuer in the Bay State.

Newly issued Treasury securities held in stripped form increased about $3.319 billion in October to a total of $215.143 billion, the Bureau of the Public Debt reported Thursday.

The Alaska legislature has passed legislation appropriating almost $150 million for a gas pipeline project that Alaska Gov. Bill Walker has said will be key to closing the state's $3.5 billion budget deficit gap.