Capital markets

Municipal bond issuers in the Midwest recorded a healthy year-over-year volume gain, in contrast to flat nationwide numbers.

Moody's upgraded the Lincoln-Way district, saying it has effected a fiscal turnaround after the management woes and investigations that sent it to junk in 2016.

Texas issues are headlining this week's slate of supply.

An increased reliance on endowment spending put the highly selective liberal arts college at risk of a credit downgrade.

Refundings rebounded in the first half of 2019, but total bond volume across the Southwest fell to a six-year low.

Public facilities and electric power were the sectors with the biggest declines.

Fitch Ratings upgraded California general obligation bonds to AA from AA-minus, the state's first upgrade in three years.

Municipal bond issuers in the Northeast sold $44.9 billion of municipal bonds in the first half of 2019, down 7% compared to the first half of 2018.

The $450 million in bond-financed improvements are part of negotiations to extend the contract of the NFL's New Orleans Saints.

The deal will end the family owned Baum's 91-year run in the municipal bond business.

Southwest Airlines' decision to enter the Hawaii market helped spur a positive outlook from Moody's.

St. Louis-based Stifel said it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets of Baum, including its municipal bond business.

The review of the final credit, Chicago's senior-lien water bonds, was resolved when the bonds were defeased.

The county in the New York suburbs received its second upgrade in two months after eliminating cumulative general fund deficits.

The insurer seeks at least $720 million from Wall Street firms that underwrote Puerto Rico bonds issued from 2001 to 2007.

Rasheia R. Johnson has returned to the firm where she worked before joining Mayor Jim Kenney's administration in 2016.

A review after the Puerto Rico special revenues court ruling led Kroll Bond Rating Agency to upgrade the Los Angeles Unified School District's GO bonds.

In the midst of a massive new-issue calendar, Equitable Facilities Fund will bring its first charter school deal backed by the Walton family.

A reduced debt burden following the completion of capital investments positioned Orange Regional Medical Center in New York’s Hudson Valley for a credit upgrade.

The parent of the New York Stock Exchange agreed to acquire the Merrill Lynch Option Volatility Estimate (MOVE) index.