Investments

Deals from two small Michigan cities show how bond-funded improvements are used to keep up with water infrastructure replacement needs.

Tom Kozlik said he was particularly concerned about the impact of a scaled-back FEMA on issuers in the Southeast.

"We expect no change to rates but [for the Federal Open Market Committee] to continue to signal that rate cuts should still be expected," said Cooper Howard, a fixed income strategist at Charles Schwab.

Hillman is part of a spate of hirings deepening the firm's presence in certain regions and the transportation sector. 

K-12 public schools get a $55 per-student increase in the state basic allotment, while other funding is allocated to specific purposes.

In the first quarter of this year, 18.6% of new-issue volume in the market was traded electronically, up from 17.3% last year, according to data from Coalition Greenwich.

The Senate needs 51 votes to pass the bill, which has already sparked opposition from moderate and conservative Republicans.

After two weeks of a deluge of issuance, supply drops off "given the FOMC meeting and Juneteenth holiday, so we expect investors will refocus on the secondary market and look to scoop up any value left behind in the wake of the issuance onslaught," said Birch Creek strategists.

"This case involves the discovery of a massive Ponzi-like fraud orchestrated by former GHA executive director Robert Cappelletti," plaintiffs GHA and Greater Groton Realty Corp., a non-profit affiliate of the GHA, said in an April court filing. 

Fitch cited the authority's stronger margins in recent years.

The panel is not expected to change rates, but the dot plot will be watched to see if the Fed's prior projection of two rate cuts this year holds.

Civic Builders, a 23-year-old nonprofit charter school developer and financer, borrowed though the public municipal bond market for the first time.

The state was one of three where one person was responsible for deciding how to invest pension money.

Issuance takes a bit of a breather due to the Juneteenth holiday and the Federal Open Market Committee meeting, Barclays strategists said.

The California High Speed Rail Authority said state funds and a potential public-private partnership would be able to cover the initial Central Valley segment.

"There's a lot more we can do now that we have a platform," said DPC DATA CEO Ken Hoffman.

The wait for finished audits dropped across municipal sectors from 2022 to 2023, a new report says, but the median time is still higher in the long run.

BlackRock strategists are "constructive" on munis for multiple reasons and think the current market environment presents itself as a buying opportunity, especially as issuance continues to be elevated and provides "ample ability" to source bonds in the primary market.

Hospital spreads have widened as investors wait to see how the One Big Beautiful Bill will impact providers.

The bond panel approved $215 million in public facilities revenue bonds and $125 million in housing bonds.