Capital markets

Moody's followed S&P in issuing a shot across the bow on coronavirus-driven threats to Illinois' ratings that are one cut away from junk.

The company's upcoming $3.2 billion deal marks the largest sale of unrated debt in the muni market.

In a federal complaint, they accuse the fund manager of increasing risky bets while the market was imploding from the coronavirus pandemic.

S&P said the downgrade is the result of what is likely a one-off analytic error in 2005; the bonds in question are held by Fannie Mae and have never traded.

The firm hired seven new senior-level bankers in its fixed income division.

The city's use of reserves to manage past deficits drove a two-notch downgrade from S&P Global Ratings, to A from AA-minus.

Talent, Oregon, was in the path of destruction created by the Almeda Fire in a 13-mile corridor between Ashland and Medford.

S&P issued a bulletin Monday warning that pressure is mounting on Illinois' BBB-minus rating —the lowest investment grade — as federal relief remains stalled.

Five specialists from the former BB&T Capital Markets, now part of Truist, are moving to Hilltop Securities.

Potential fiscal fallout from the police killing of George Floyd and the pandemic's economic strains brought a negative outlook to the city's AAA S&P rating.

With Congress gridlocked over the coronavirus rescure package, the nation's largest trasit authority may have to look for other options.

The rating agency lowered the authority's transportation revenue bonds to A3 from A2, citing again the effects of the coronavirus.

S&P Global Ratings revised its outlook on Pennsylvania's A-plus rating to negative from stable ahead of Wednesday's competitive general obligation bond sale.

The student housing and academic facility that serves the University of Illinois Chicago campus opened in August.

Moody's cited high leverage and fixed costs attributable to the city's pension and other post-employee benefit plans. Voters decide on new bonds in November.

Municipal bond volume kept rolling in August, producing the second-highest volume for the month in the past decade, marking the third consecutive month this year of greater-than $40 billion.

Firefighters are waging battle against an estimated 7,000 fires of varying sizes throughout the state; nearly 1.5 million acres have burned.

Municipal issuers in the Far West sold $38.7 billion in bonds during the first six months of 2020, 8.8% more than they did the year before.

Municipal bond issuers in the Southeast sold $27.7 billion of debt, down 7% year-over-year as the region saw fewer big transportation and prepay gas deals.

New York City's comptroller wants the mayor to pull the executive order he issued in March, when the city needed to quickly purchase ventilators and other coroavirus-related equipment.