Investments

As COVID-19 wreaks havoc on global markets, munis try to keep pace.

The agency's deputy finance chief was promoted after CFO Michael Colsch's retirement.

Richard Li, a pubic debt specialist for the city of Milwaukee, compared disclosing COVID-19 to disclosing a hurricane hitting localities on the Atlantic coast.

S&P Global Ratings is postponing a March 31 forum on public housing bonds due to concerns about the outbreak of COVID-19.

The municipal bond market will see a slew of supply price this week as issuers and investors buffeted by uncertainty, volatility and outright panic. California is selling $2.2 billion of GO bonds, which investors will seek out as a safe haven in these unstable times.

Sowjana Sivaloganathan, who was municipal markets product manager at Bloomberg for the past 20 years, has joined Intercontinental Exchange’s ICE Data Services to focus on fixed-income product management.

The revenue package for the $18 billion bond bill includes a proposed rise in gas and corporate taxes that Gov. Charlie Baker opposes.

But EMMA will ultimately have to drill into disclosures to provide full transparency

Michigan voters head to the polls on March 10 to decide on more than $600 million of school boding proposals.

As fear and uncertainty over COVID-19 rapidly grow, it has sent yields for both municipals and Treasuries to never before seen low levels — begging the question if we could see zero or negative yields here in the States?

The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority updated its latest offering statement to warn of the risk posed to its bottom line as did two systems with upcoming deals.

The National Association of Bond Lawyers wants Treasury to fill the position formerly held by John Cross III.

Ramifications extend well beyond the three-level Brooklyn-Queens Expressway structure that is one of the most reviled pieces of city infrastructure.

Mayor Jim Kenney’s fifth budget proposal seeks to shield the city from a potential recession.

The world remains on edge about the rapidly spreading COVID-19 and those fears once again have Treasury yields digging down even deeper. COVID-19 fears have now impacted fund flows, as municipals suffers outflows for the first time in 60 weeks.

California election officials have until April 4 to provide final counts in the state's March 3 primary.

Pending legislation seeks to block governor’s $3.5B bond-funded road fix.

S&P cut the senior water and sewer bond rating to AA-plus due to fallout from the recent failed attempt to sell Florida's largest utility.

Sources say action on the SEC's proposed exemptive order has slowed, though it could garner attention at next week's conference.

Cash-flow struggles amid sharp tuition revenue declines the past few years placed the Philadelphia private college on the verge of another credit downgrade one year after its rating was dropped into low investment grade territory.