Subject Root Tag

Daily report for September 14, 2021

Market participants welcomed the municipal-related provisions in the reconciliation bill but are hesitant to start making bets on its passage.

The university heads into the market this week with a mix of tax-exempt, taxable, new money sustainability and refunding bonds

The 2021 Rising Stars discuss their work, hobbies, interests, and their thoughts about the future of the public finance sector. We also link to all the profiles, in case you missed them.

In both states, jobs have recovered past where they were prior to last March when the pandemic hit the U.S.

While the city has a long history of coping with disasters including the Sept. 11 attacks, the COVID-19 pandemic is a work in progress.

The Long Island utility intends to sell electric system general revenue bonds in three tranches.

Cheered by the inclusion of key muni market priorities in tax legislation unveiled over the weekend, muni market advocates must now battle to keep them there.

Daily report for September 13, 2021

A larger new-issue calendar greets investors with a lot of cash on hand and strategists expect municipal yields to rise as the calendar builds.

The fund focuses on investment-grade state and local government debt funding sustainable development, including affordable housing, green spaces and hospitals.

If residents become eligible for the government money, it would increase income and spending, providing a lift to the commonwealth's economy.

$2.75 billion is available to build permanent housing for unhoused people, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a press conference.

The 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks comes as New York City is trying to emerge from a newer crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hopes that the pandemic has been curbed have dimmed as infections and hospitalizations are on the rise again due to the introduction of the extremely dangerous Delta strain. For some companies, this has disrupted their plans to bring remote employees back to their offices or institute a "hybrid" arrangement.

Daily report for September 10, 2021

The presidents of the Federal Reserve banks of Boston and Dallas said Thursday they would sell their individual stock holdings by Sept. 30 and invest the proceeds in diversified index funds or hold them in cash.

Refinitiv Lipper reported $1.1 billion of inflows into municipal bond mutual funds, with high-yield falling to $144 million. Even with the lower reported inflows, funds still raked in record billions so far in 2021.

The state prices $2.1 billion for institutions on Tuesday, also the date of the statewide vote on whether to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The proposed union that would give the two a healthy market position in Illinois comes as federal regulators are stepping up anti-competitive scrutiny of such transactions.