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Pension burdens increased in fiscal 2013 for 31 of the 50 local governments with the most debt outstanding in that year, Moody's Investors Service said in a new report.
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Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said it raised its long-term rating on Basehor, Kan.'s general obligation debt one notch, to AA from AA-minus.
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Revenue offsets in the Senate's six-year transportation funding bill are $1 billion short of proposed general fund transfers.
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- Illinois
Three years after its much ballyhooed launch by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago Infrastructure Trust, slow to get off the ground, is getting a makeover.
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Moody's Investors Service said it upgraded Daytona Beach, Fla.'s water and sewer revenue bonds to A1 from A2.
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Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said it lowered its long-term rating to BBB-minus from BBB on Marysville Public Financing Authority, Calif.'s series 2011 taxable refunding certificates of participation (COPs), issued on behalf of Marysville.
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Prices of top-rated municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session, traders said, as yields on some maturities weakened by as much as three basis points.
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Three public pension funds have sued New Jersey in the parties latest legal joust, accusing the state of violating a contract by underfunding their plans.
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Tender rates for the Treasury Department's latest 91-day and 182-day discount bills were higher, as the three-months incurred a 0.050% high rate, up from 0.030% the prior week, and the six-months incurred a 0.145% high rate, up from 0.135% the week before.
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The Treasury Department said Monday it will sell $40 billion of four-week discount bills Tuesday.
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Indicator Last Report Forecast Actual Durable Goods May: -2.1% June: +3.0% June: +3.4% Durable Goods ex Trans May: -0.1% June: +0.5% June: +0.8%
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Texas factory activity, as measured by the production index, "declined slightly in July," according to the monthly business activity survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, released Monday.
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Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said it has raised its rating on Syracuse Industrial Development Agency, N.Y.'s school facility revenue bonds outstanding to AA from AA-minus.
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In its only deal of the year, Colorado's Regional Transportation District will issue $200 million of certificates of participation to purchase buses, rail cars and other elements of its growing mass transit system.
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Day Indicator Last Report Forecast Monday Durable Goods May: -2.2% June: +2.1% Monday Durable Goods ex Trans May: unch June: +0.1% Tuesday Consumer Confidence June: 101.4 July: 100.6 Wednesday Pending Home Sales May: +0.9% June: n/a Thursday GDP Q1: -0.2% Q2: +2.6% Thursday Final Sales Q1: -0.6% Q2: n/a Thursday Core PCE Q1: +0.8% Q2: +1.3% Thursday Initial Claims 7/18: 255,000 7/25: n/a Thursday Continuing Claims 7/11: 2.207M 7/18: n/a Friday Employment Cost Index Q1: +0.7% Q2: +0.5% Friday Chicago PMI June: 49.4 July: 50.5 Friday Michigan Sentiment June: 96.1 July: n/a Friday Current Conditions June: 108.9 July: n/a Friday Expectations June: 87.8 July: n/a
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