Capital markets

Two rating agencies affirmed Bridgeview, Illinois, at junk after the Chicago Fire agreed to pay the village to escape its stadium lease.

Darlene Green, Stephanie Tomblin and Gabriella Briceno are the 2019 recipients.

Growing reserves spurred a two-notch Moody's upgrade for Burlington — another milestone in the city’s fiscal turnaround from a failed municipal-owned broadband.

The unrated 40-year bond issue was marketed to sophisticated institutional buyers familiar with the legal dispute between MEAG and Florida's JEA.

Facing Gov. Mike Dunleavy's 40% cut in state funding, the regents passed a measure allowing it to lay off tenured professors and close campuses.

The two suburban affordable housing portfolios are owned by the Ohio-based Better Housing Foundation.

Munis are expected to attract inflows for another week. After that the ball's in the Federal Open Market Committee's court.

The Louisiana State Bond Commission unlawfully banned two banks from underwriting bond deals because of their corporate gun policies, the lawsuit said.

Record inflows of cash to municipal-bond mutual funds coupled with the drop in tax-exempt yields has helped fuel the number of deals in more default prone sectors.

CommonSpirit Health will sell $2.7 billion of taxable bonds and $3.1 billion of tax-exempt debt, with BBB-plus ratings, into a supply-starved market.

Brown left city government at the end of Rahm Emanuel's administration.

Veteran-owned Academy Securities has hired Chicago-based public finance banker James Carter

A judge ruled the Miami-Dade County Expressway Authority can still write checks even though it was abolished in a bill signed July 3 by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Registered advisory firm Dale Scott & Co. will pay $25,000, and one firm and one individual each will pay $10,000 for acting as unregistered solicitors.

The new budget draws down fund balances for new spending and tax relief but improving reserves and fully funded pensions cushion the state's ratings.

The Long Island township is emerging from the cloud of SEC scrutiny.

The municipal bond market will continue to see a swarm of mid-sized deals that will be taken down with ease, continuing the good times that have been fueled by 27 straight weeks of fund inflows.

Fitch Ratings cut Vermont's general obligation bonds to AA-plus, citing slower growth prospects driven by an aging population that isn't growing.

RBC Capital Markets added Ian Parker as it positions itself to help issuers bring to market billions of dollars in authorized affordable housing debt.

Persistent enrollment declines at Daemen College led Fitch Ratings to assign a negative outlook to the western New York school.