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Nov. 4, 2015 Midwest: Plain/Insured GO Yield Curve* State Ratings One-Year Five-Year 10-Year 30-Year Illinois A3/A+/A+ 0.98 2.88 3.81 4.83 Indiana Aaa/AAA/AA+ 0.23 1.24 2.18 3.2 Iowa Aaa/AAA/AAA 0.23 1.25 2.18 3.2 Michigan Aa2/AA/AA 0.27 1.31 2.29 3.33 Minnesota Aa1/AA+/AA+ 0.24 1.22 2.11 3.12 Missouri Aaa/AAA/AAA 0.23 1.19 2.09 3.11 Nebraska NR/AAA/NR 0.23 1.26 2.23 3.28 North Dakota Aa1/AA+/NR 0.26 1.31 2.26 3.28 Ohio Aa1/AA+/AA+ 0.25 1.27 2.22 3.25 South Dakota NR/AA+/AA+ 0.27 1.3 2.26 3.3 Wisconsin Aa2/AA/AA 0.26 1.24 2.23 3.23

11/3/2015 10/27/2015 State # Iss Amount ($000) # Iss Amount ($000) Chg in Amt ($000s) Illinois 15 $155,165 10 $115,335 $39,830 Indiana 14 177,620 18 1,257,620 -1,080,000 Iowa 5 73,650 7 27,085 46,565 Michigan 9 192,865 5 82,105 110,760 Minnesota 25 226,910 30 259,430 -32,520 Missouri 4 108,615 4 95,795 12,820 Nebraska 1 179,400 0 0 179,400 North Dakota 3 47,840 8 78,095 -30,255 Ohio 7 247,960 1 86,275 161,685 South Dakota 1 47,565 0 0 47,565 Wisconsin 9 44,340 14 65,610 -21,270

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Day Indicator Last Report Forecast Monday Construction Spending Oct.: +1.0% Nov.: +0.6% Monday ISM Manufacturing Nov.: 48.6 Dec.: n/a Wednesday ADP Employment Report Nov.: +217,000 Dec.: +190,000 Wednesday International Trade Oct.: -$43.9B Nov.: -$45.0B Wednesday Factory Orders Oct.: +1.5% Nov.: -0.2% Wednesday ISM Non-Manufacturing Nov.: 55.9 Dec.: 56.0 Thursday Initial Claims 12/26: 287,000 1/2: n/a Thursday Continuing Claims 12/19: 2.198M 12/26: n/a Friday Nonfarm Payrolls Nov.: +211,000 Dec.: n/a Friday Private Payrolls Nov.: +197,000 Dec.: n/a Friday Unemployment Rate Nov.: 5.0% Dec.: n/a Friday Avg Hourly Earnings Nov.: +0.2% Dec.: n/a Friday Avg Work Week Nov.: 34.5 Dec.: n/a Friday Wholesale Inventories Oct.: -0.1% Nov.: n/a Friday Wholesale Sales Oct.: unch Nov.: n/a Friday Consumer Credit Oct.: +$16.0B Nov.: n/a

Government

Phoenix Plans to Issue $117.9 million of revenue bonds for Sky Harbor Airport, whose traffic appears to be growing after dominant carrier U.S. Airways merged with American Airlines.

Fitch Ratings downgraded three series of bonds issued by the Berks County Municipal Authority, Pa. on behalf of Reading Hospital and Medical Center Project to A-plus.

Fitch ratings affirmed LA/Ontario International Airport, Calif.’s A-minus rating, but also maintained a negative outlook.

Standard & Poor's assigned an A-plus long-term rating to San Francisco State Building Authority's lease revenue refunding bonds and Oakland State Building Authority's lease revenue refunding bonds.

Moody's upgraded MIT spinoff Broad Institute to Aa3 with a stable outlook from A1 and positive, citing sustained growth and healthy operating cash flow.

Chicago’s passage of a record tax hike to help stabilize its public safety pension funds has fueled further tightening of the city’s general obligation trading levels in recent days, Municipal Market Analytics says.

The House Financial Services Committee approved a bipartisan bill by voice vote on Tuesday that would treat investment grade and actively traded municipal securities as high quality liquid assets under a bank liquidity rule adopted by banking regulators in September of last year.

Prices of top-rated municipal bonds ended weaker on Tuesday, according to traders, as many new deals came to market led off by two competitive sales totaling over $538 million from Nevada’s Clark County School District.

Los Angeles International Airport received rating affirmations ahead of plans to price $302 million in general airport revenue bonds.

Chicago squares off in the Illinois Supreme Court Nov. 17 with unions and pension fund members challenging the overhaul of its municipal and laborers' pension funds.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Service said it has raised its rating on the city of Miami Beach, Fla.'s $64.8 million series 2015 parking revenue refunding bonds to A-plus from A.