Economy

Fitch placed $34.3 million of Bridgeport Hospital bonds on rating watch positive, citing its pending transaction with Yale New Haven Health System.

A New York issuer has applied for relief under the Internal Revenue Service's voluntary closing agreement program so that tax-law violations relating to bonds issued for New York Medical College in 1998 can be settled.

Not long after Citi analysts said they see value in the toll-road sector, the Miami-Dade County Expressway Authority plans to price $340 million of toll-revenue bonds in early June.

Pima County, Ariz., Regional Transportation Authority will issue its second $150 million issue with an upgrade from Standard & Poor's.

Facing financial straits the Regional Transportation District is considering using bus rapid transit instead of a costly rail line to Denver's northwestern suburbs.

Chicago hits the market Thursday with $784 million of new-money and refunding Midway Airport bonds that will nearly wrap up a restructuring aimed at strengthening its debt portfolio.

Houston's Memorial Hermann Health System is preparing to issue more than $290 million of bonds to finance expansion projects.

Travel executives say under-investment in U.S. transportation infrastructure threatens the nation's global standing.

Fitch Ratings revised its outlook to negative from stable on $130 million of Covenant Health System revenue bonds in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

The Florida Department of Transportation axed a proposal for developers to finance, design, and build the state's first privately operated tolled expressway.

Proposals to keep federal transportation funding at current levels will worsen the existing backlog of transit system deferred maintenance.

Southwest Airlines' newfound freedom to begin serving long-haul destinations from Dallas Love Field Airport in October poses risks for smaller airports left behind, Fitch Ratings warns.

Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joins infrastructure investor Meridiam North America as senior advisor.

The House Appropriations Committee approved a 2015 transportation budget that keeps federal highway funding at 2014 levels.

The risk of a Long Island Rail Road strike hovers over officials at New York's MTA, even as board members approved a five-year deal with its subway workers.

Federal, state and local elected officials joined LA Metro in announcing the receipt of a $1.25 billion full funding grant agreement from the Federal Transit Administration for its Purple Line subway extension.

The Good Shepherd Medical Center serving East Texas is on the verge of losing its Moody's Investors Service investment-grade rating of Baa3, analysts said.

Airport infrastructure public-private partnerships are often stymied by a web of competing local interests, aviation advocates told a House P3 panel.

Moody's Investors Service Tuesday downgraded $975 million in outstanding Clark County, Nevada Airport Enterprise senior lien bonds to Aa3. The bonds are for Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport.

Moody's said $2 billion in federal loans for a commuter train service extension into Virginia's Fairfax and Loudoun counties is a credit positive.