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The affluent North Dallas suburb of Frisco, Texas, will share debt service with the Frisco Independent School District and a conduit issuer on $39 million of sales tax revenue bonds to improve a professional soccer stadium for the FC Dallas team.

A campus town center at The College of New Jersey is the newest project to materialize from a public-private partnership program that faces an uncertain future after a five-year run.

The Treasury Department sold $13 billion of inflation-indexed 9-year 10-month TIPs at a 0.600% high yield, an adjusted price of 98.486859, with a 3/8% coupon.

Issuance costs average 1.02% of principal nationally, while ranging to around 10% for some California school districts, according to a report from Public Sector Credit Solutions.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) has tapped Jeffrey D. Knueppel as the agency’s new general manager replacing the retiring Joseph Casey.

Prices of top-rated municipal bonds rallied in late morning trading, according to traders, with yields on some maturities weakening by as much as seven basis points.

David Cohen is leaving the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, where he was a managing director and associate general counsel, to join RBC Capital Markets as a director on the capital markets team.

The composite index of Leading Economic Indicators was up 0.1% in August following a flat reading in July, first reported as a 0.2% decline, the Conference Board reported Friday.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said it raised its issuer credit rating to AA-minus from A-plus on Indio, Calif.

The municipal bond market was quiet on Friday as traders took stock after the Federal Reserve decided not to raise interest rates while the New York City Transitional Finance Authority gets a jump on next week, with a scheduled retail order period today.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said it lowered its long-term rating to BB-plus from AA on the town of Lawrence, Wis.'s series 2008 general obligation promissory notes and series 2012 GO refunding bonds and placed the rating on CreditWatch with developing implications.

Monday, September 21 Issuer St Description Amount

Monday, September 21 Issuer St Description Amount

Sep. 18, 2015 Far West: Plain/Insured GO Yield Curve* State Ratings One-Year Five-Year 10-Year 30-Year Alaska Aaa/AAA/AAA 0.23 1.51 2.36 3.35 California Aa3/A/A 0.27 1.58 2.54 3.57 Hawaii Aa2/AA/AA 0.25 1.56 2.45 3.45 Idaho Aa1/AA+/AA+ 0.23 1.55 2.44 3.44 Montana Aa1/AA/AA+ 0.23 1.54 2.45 3.46 Nevada Aa2/AA/AA+ 0.29 1.63 2.5 3.53 Oregon Aa1/AA+/AA+ 0.23 1.5 2.35 3.35 Washington Aa1/AA+/AA+ 0.26 1.57 2.49 3.52 Wyoming NR/AAA/NR 0.23 1.53 2.36 3.35

Week Of September 21 Issuer St Description Amount

Friday, September 18 Issuer St Description Amount

9/17/2015 9/10/2015 State # Iss Amount ($000) # Iss Amount ($000) Chg in Amt ($000) Alaska 1 $55,710 1 $55,710 $0 California 12 518,930 8 169,100 349,830 Hawaii 0 0 3 185,470 -185,470 Idaho 0 0 0 0 0 Montana 0 0 1 64,400 -64,400 Nevada 0 0 0 0 0 Oregon 0 0 1 71,070 -71,070 Washington 12 1,291,300 9 1,002,295 289,005 Wyoming 0 0 0 0 0

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Ferguson, Mo. lost its investment-grade rating Thursday when Moody's Investors Service dropped its rating four notches in a sign of the financial fallout from the fatal 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown.