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At $1.8 billion, the tax-exempt and taxable deal is the largest on the calendar this week and it's the latest offering from the city since a $1.2 billion refunding issuance in July.
August 20
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As investors contemplate rate policy for the remainder of 2024, "there have been a few strategies from which to choose to boost yield — short positioning, curve extension and credit quality," noted Kim Olsan, senior fixed-income portfolio manager at NewSquare Capital.
August 19
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The possibility of moving stalled housing bills forward combined with promises of down payment assistance is offering hope to housing advocates.
August 19
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Loop Capital's Jim Reynolds was among the nine private and public entities that signed a pledge to help bring in more historically underutilized businesses on construction projects.
August 19
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Pent-up demand, dwindling federal aid and lower interest rates led to a 32% increase in municipal issuance in the first half of 2024.
August 19
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New sales of tax-exempt bonds in California have been gobbled up by buyers looking to shield income from the state's high taxes and to lock in yields.
August 19
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The measure would have requested $20 billion of bond authority from voters in nine San Francisco-area counties; backers said they would try in a later year.
August 19
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Part of the surge in issuance came from issuers tapping the capital market after several years due to the inability to no longer postpone long-delayed projects and the drying up of pandemic aid.
August 19
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Municipal bond insurers wrapped $18.592 billion in the first half of 2024, a 19.5% increase from the $15.561 billion insured in the first half of 2023, according to LSEG data.
August 19
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New York state's issuers topped the Northeast charts as issuance rose in nearly every sector of the market during the first half of 2024.
August 19
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Barclays rate strategists believe the 10-year part of the Treasury curve has room to cheapen. "In that case, tax-exempts will likely not only follow, but underperform."
August 16
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Environmental, social and governance issues are a ripe debate among Republican states who oppose federal efforts they say are overly political.
August 16
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State lawmakers will be back in session Aug. 26 in an effort to head off ballot initiatives that worry the state's public finance industry.
August 16
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Eduardo Ramos had faced insurance fraud charges that were unrelated to his work at the school district.
August 16
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Missouri's Kansas City Public Schools is looking to take its modernization plan to voters and seek approval for a $474 million GO bond measure next April.
August 16
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Proposed guidelines for federal tax credits could undermine the effort to build a clean hydrogen market, critics say.
August 16
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The state plans to price the bonds in early October.
August 16
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