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Investors pulled more from municipal bond mutual funds last week, with Refinitiv Lipper reporting $4.106 billion of outflows, bring the total to $22.3 billion of outflows year-to-date.

Moody's views 16 first time payment delinquencies over the last two years impacting $1.46 billion of debt as related to the pandemic's toll on the senior-living sector.

The Oversight Board says an adversary complaint affecting HTA claims remains active, contradicting a statement made to the court last month.

Surface transportation groups like AASHTO want a phased implementation of the IIJA's Buy America policy.

A taxable bond issue will raise $3.4 billion for extraordinary costs incurred by natural gas utilities during deadly Winter Storm Uri that hit Texas in 2021.

The 12 announced transactions in the first quarter marked the lowest since Kaufman Hall began tracking the activity in 2016.

As the West isolates Russia with sanctions in response to its invasion of Ukraine, policymakers are using the global financial system as a weapon to help stop the war. What will the impact be on banks?

As the crisis in the Ukraine unfolds, markets have been upended creating a volatile environment for all asset classes, including the municipal market.

Join Glenn Hegar, Comptroller of Public Accounts, Texas for an update on the state's economic forecast.

Continued market demand means not-for-profit hospitals must think about their ESG strategy, according to a Kaufman Hall analyst.

Like last week, supply for the new-calendar issuance is light at $4.804 billion with $3.182 billion of negotiated deals and $1.622 billion of competitive loans.

New York’s $220 billion fiscal 2023 budget focuses on environmental and social issues while staying in balance with federal aid and projection-beating revenue.

Moody's deemed the temporary gas tax holidays implemented in several states credit negative.

The second quarter should bring more opportunity and less volatility following the worst quarter in four decades, analysts said.

Fitch Ratings revised its outlook to stable from negative on the state's A-plus rating, two weeks after the state received a positive outlook from S&P.

The state’s personal income tax revenue and sales tax revenue bonds were also lifted from Aa2. Related credits were also upgraded. The rating outlook is stable.

Investors pulled more from municipal bond mutual funds as the Investment Company Institute on Wednesday reported $4.786 billion of outflows, up from $4.459 billion of outflows in the previous week.

The the $389.495 million of tax-exempts were sold late last month to help fund construction of the Broward County Convention Center Headquarters Hotel.

States need to balance the growing concerns about oil prices with the need for infrastructure, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said.