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Outstanding governmental debt totals approximately $719 million and utility debt stands at roughly $200 million, according to Fitch Ratings.

The Iowa Fertilizer Co. will refund its Midwestern Disaster Area revenue bonds with a new structure that yields higher Fitch, Moody's and S&P ratings.

The court's decision leaves issuers back to looking for a legislative solution.

Oklahoma hopes to close on a federal loan this summer for rural highway construction and improvements that would tap into $200 million of borrowing authorized by a 2021 state law.

The Federal Reserve has hired five executives from the stablecoin issuer Circle and at least one employee of Ripple since 2019 as part of its technology-focused recruiting efforts. It plans to do more hiring in the years ahead to aid its work on faster payments and central bank digital currencies.

Eric Garcetti's final State of the City speech focused on infrastructure, homelessness and climate change.

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.