Bond ratings

While S&P, Moody's and Fitch still provide ratings on about 92% of municipal bonds, market participants say they don’t rely on the rating agencies as they once did. Part 2 of The Bond Buyer’s series on the decade after the financial crisis.

Moody's Investors Service said Palmetto Health's integration with Greenville Health may result in a rating upgrade for Palmetto and a downgrade for Greenville.

Fitch Ratings said it won't lower its ratings because of JEA's litigation attempting to shed a power purchase agreement with Georgia's MEAG.

Only two Michigan school districts remain under state oversight.

Opponents say passage of Amendment 5 in November would threaten Florida’s ability to fund state priorities and its triple-A ratings.

The amount of outstanding variable rate demand bonds rose to $142.4 billion in the second quarter of this year, a gain over $142.2 billion in the first quarter and the end of a decade-long decline, Moody’s Investor Service said in a recent report.

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.