Capital markets

The fast-growing Texas capital was downgraded by Fitch Ratings ahead of a $328 million bond sale that is expected to price in September.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency upgraded Wisconsin’s general obligation bonds to AAA from AA-plus and S&P Global Ratings lifted them to AA-plus from AA.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency also affirmed the city’s general obligation bond rating at A.

Fitch Ratings also maintained a negative outlook on BART.

A speculative-grade deal to build on-campus housing at Santa Rosa Junior College is a first for a conduit issuer operating out of the State Treasurer's Office.

The $1.4 billion seaport revenue refunding bond deal Wells Fargo will price next week will be the largest port transaction since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

A federal judge denied Nuveen's motion to dismiss Preston Hollow's antitrust lawsuit concluding a "plausible" claim exists to proceed. PHC faces a tougher legal road ahead in proving its rival orchestrated a damaging boycott.

Chicago is accepting underwriter qualifications as it updates its investment banking pool; it also delayed the bidding deadline for potential casino developers.

The forthcoming Texas law bans businesses from state contracts if their policies are said to discriminate against the firearms industry.

Kyle Hemminger joined Cain Brothers this month in Columbus, Ohio.

Economic growth after the pandemic and maintaining structural balance and reserves will influence whether Fitch ultimately lifts the state to AAA from AA-plus.

The city has issued a second set of bonds to fund 266 housing units that are the first of some 8,000 planned on adjoining islands in the San Francisco Bay.

Better funding levels prompted S&P Global Ratings to revise the outlook on the state's BBB-plus GO bond rating to positive from stable.

Pitfalls loom despite improved bond ratings and an improving fiscal picture, according to members of the state's fiscal control board.

Illinois' single-employer pension plans are straining the budgets and ratings of those local governments without the tax base, flexiblity, and fiscal discipline to tackle rising costs, S&P says in a special report.

Federal relief and rising revenues drew a change in outlook from Moody's to stable from negative, but Moody's remains the only agency to rate Chicago at junk.

The rating agencies affirmed two AA-plus and one triple-A rating ahead of the deal.

The New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority and the Ivy League university named Ramirez Asset Management, in their first collaboration with an MWBE firm.

“There’s been a lot of discussion about New York City and its future in the public domain. And when that happens it makes sense to solicit multiple opinions,” said Kroll Senior Managing Director Karen Daly.

A brightening revenue and liquidity picture and improved fiscal governance and management were cited as Moody's assigned a positive outlook.