Capital markets

The submission calculator received criticism from issuers and analysts with some saying it isn't ready for "prime time."

Next week's deal will be sold at auction but Washington's state finance team says it is is agnostic about using negotiated or competitive sales to price bonds.

Paul Daley, managing director of BondWave’s Information Lab, talks about how big data can be made more accessible and valuable to users. He details his examination into a Pacific Gas and Electric bond as a way to illustrate how drilling down into this information can help participants in a fast-moving market. Chip Barnett hosts.

Fitch Ratings raised the Las Vegas suburb to BBB-minus from BB, with a stable outlook.

Thanks to the taxable tear, the municipal market saw the third highest volume for the month of January in the past 10 years.

The market awaits Gov. J.B. Pritzker's fiscal 2021 budget proposal next month before turning to November's progressive income tax vote.

Wells Fargo will be joint senior manager on a $1.4 billion deal, its first negotiated California deal since State Treasurer Fiona Ma lifted a ban.

Moody's Investors Service assigned a negative outlook to the college's Baa2 rating.

With demand at an all-time high and record inflows that is continuing to come into the market, one would think there would be more issuance.

Miroslava Mejia Krug is a veteran of top fiscal posts at two Chicago-area private higher education institutions.

The state sold tax-exempt refunding debt at 2019 rates but won't deliver them until 2021 when the call date of the original bonds is reached.

The Palmyra-Eagle district can't dissolve, and must find a way to close a looming budget gap as its reserves and enrollment dwindle.

Whether new dedicated revenue for the MTA or its higher total debt holds more sway in the capital markets remains an open question.

Although municipal bond volume is expected to rise by almost $2 billion, it won’t be nearly enough to satisfy investors’ thirst for the asset class.

Rhode Island's governor is asking lawmakers to forward $269 million worth of initiatives to voters.

The mayor warned about looming state Medicaid cuts in his media briefing on the preliminary spending plan.

Both the senior and the new second lien of Chicago's Sales Tax Securities Corp. are now rated AA-minus.

The first hard evidence of how this is affecting ratings in the public finance sector came from a downgrade two months ago involving Princeton Community Hospital in West Virginia.

The state expects to set senior and co-manager pools with up to 15 firms each for an initial four-year term.

S&P dropped the the nation's second-most-populous county — one of many Illinois governments struggling with retirement plan funding — to A-plus from AA-minus.