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Market Intelligence analyst Jeff Lipton finds that low debt burdens, stronger rainy-day funds, improved pension metrics and robust legal safeguards help states remain a core source of stability and diversification for muni portfolios despite slowing growth and fiscal headwinds.

Legislation to increase the affordable housing supply which often includes bond sales is getting attention in Congress as the bipartisan ROAD to Housing Act hits a speed bump.

"Ultimately, this report is essential because member firm compliance protects investors and safeguards the integrity of our markets," FINRA's Greg Ruppert said.

Four of Dallas Area Rapid Transit's 13 member cities took action to ask voters in May whether they want to withdraw from the agency.

Investors are about to get a chance to buy bitcoin-backed municipal bonds. It won't be the last, according to the team behind the New Hampshire-based deal.

C. Christopher Trower was the lead attorney before the Supreme Court in a case that upheld states' rights to preferential tax treatment of their own bonds.

FINRA found that the firm failed to include the non-transaction-based compensation indicator when reporting 12,066 municipal securities transactions.

The Regents of the University of California will sell $2 billion of bonds next week after yanking a $1.5 billion summer deal amid Trump administration threats.

"The Nominating Committee's goal is to achieve broad representation of the municipal securities market on the MSRB Board of Directors," the committee's chair said.

The revenue bonds will fund highway improvements expected to spur economic development in West Alabama.

"The county will file an appeal," Suffolk County said in the Dec. 1 EMMA filing.