Bond ratings

The competitive GO deal will feature five- or eight-year calls.

Fitch Ratings upgraded the city's issuer default rating to AA-minus from A-plus.

The Ohio Market Access Program is designed to lower local governments' costs when issuing short-term notes.

The outlook revision reflects the district’s “progress towards structural balance," Fitch Ratings said.

More than $60 million in new debt Owensboro Municipal Utilities could issue this month to pay for the expansion of its William Cavin Water Treatment Plant would have no effect on the city's credit.

Citizens Energy Group's water enterprise earned upgrades by the three major rating agencies.

Though fires wreak havoc causing property damage and loss of life, the hit to local economies — and their bonds — tends to be ameliorated by state and federal funding.

San Antonio has weathered a decade of stress on the federal funding and energy fronts.

Kroll says the use of rating ceilings can "subvert fundamental credit analysis."

After nearly a decade with a junk bond rating, Rensselaer County's most populous town vaulted into investment-grade bond status Monday, the town announced.

Rural governments continue to lose economic ground, according to a Moody's Investors Service report.

School districts, higher education institutions and healthcare providers could feel the pinch, according to Eric Kim of Fitch Ratings.

A newly released research paper found that the probability that a state general obligation bond will be rated higher after the Dodd-Frank Act is 2.7 times greater than before the law was enacted.

Twenty-three years after hitting rock bottom, D.C. has a triple-A rating.

The deposit exceeds some pre-budget estimates that the fund would receive $14 million, said Gov. Tom Wolf.

Moody's Investors Service deemed the state's strong May tourism numbers a credit positive.

S&P downgraded the outlook on the AA rated school and said further weakening in the school's finances could pressure the rating on $200 million of debt.

A quarter of municipal bond issuance so far this year carried just one rating agency opinion, heightening uncertainty over credit quality for some investors.

The three agencies that rate Illinois are watching to see how well assumptions in the budget play out during the fiscal year.

The Kentucky county’s BB general obligation bond rating was withdrawn less than a month after S&P Global Ratings downgraded the bonds seven notches.