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The Internal Revenue Service has released interim guidance on how management contracts and certain accountable care organizations can be structured to avoid excessive private use that would jeopardize the tax-exempt status of bonds.

An overwhelming majority of Texans seem ready to approve a ballot measure moving $1.7 billion/ year into the state road fund.

Moody's Investors Service changed its outlook on the Baa2 rated Albert Einstein Healthcare Network to negative from stable.

Just ahead of a planned refunding, Charleston, S.C, won a general obligation bond upgrade to Aaa from Moody's Investors Service.

The municipal market opened slowly on Monday morning as traders saved their energy for the week's larger deals, scheduled for pricing later this week.

A $250 million water supply and an $80 million job development program would be funded by a 1% sales tax that is up for approval in Wichita, Kan., Nov. 4.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said it has lowered its ratings on Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD), Va.'s senior wastewater revenue bonds outstanding to AA-plus from AAA; and its rating on the district's subordinate wastewater revenue bonds outstanding to AA from AA-plus.

Democrat Mike Collier, an accountant who has never run for office before, is on offense in his uphill battle to win the Texas Controller's office against Republican Glenn Hegar, a conservative state senator. They seek to replace, Susan Combs, a Republican who did not seek a third term..

Tender rates for the Treasury Department's latest 91-day and 182-day discount bills were mixed, as the three-months incurred a 0.020% high rate, unchanged from 0.020% the prior week, and the six-months incurred a 0.055% high rate, up from 0.050% the week before.

The Treasury Department said Monday it will sell $34 billion of four-week discount bills Tuesday.

Texas factory activity, as measured by the production index, "increased again in October," according to the monthly business activity survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, released Monday.

Moody's Investors Service said it has affirmed the Baa2 rating on Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Pa.'s, (AEHN) bonds.

Pending home sales grew 0.3% to an index reading of 105.0 in September, after an unrevised 1.0% gain to 104.7 in August, according to a report released Monday by the National Association of Realtors.

Falling oil prices add fiscal pressure to five of the nation's top energy-producing states, according to Moody's Investors Service.

The decision by the State University of New York to expand an online learning platform to grow total system enrollment is a credit positive, Moody's said.

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