Investments

With questions and analysis still swirling around a deadly crash at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, concerns arise about enplanement levels, traffic patterns, and credit ratings affecting the region's major airports.

Yields and market volatility "positively correlated with trading volume," a research report published by MSRB finds.

In 2017, Congress moved from budget resolution to reconciliation legislation in less than six weeks.

Photos from The Bond Buyer's annual National Outlook Conference.

Sweetwater Union High's rocket-fast transformation from an accounting practices bad apple to ratings upgrades and positive outlooks is expected to boost its bond program.

Investors added $238.5 million to municipal bond mutual funds in the week ending Wednesday, following $1.124 billion of inflows the prior week, according to LSEG Lipper data.

As Congress begins hammering out the budget resolutions that will shape the country's fiscal future, muni lobbyists double down on efforts to keep the tax-exemption in place.

The legislation comes as the municipal market industry fends off threats to tax-exempt municipal bonds.

The rating for Baylor Scott & White Health in Texas was upgraded, while Presbyterian Healthcare Services in New Mexico was downgraded by Moody's.

A federal court has given an outside debtor-in-possession loan "superpriority" over the bondholders' lien.

Portfolio managers seem more sanguine about threats to the tax exemption from Congress.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine wants to raise the sports gaming tax to pay for stadiums and he does not want the state to issue bonds to finance stadium development.

The rising costs of federal debt, an impending budget showdown, and Congressional turmoil is highlighting the complex relationship between Treasury securities and municipal bonds.

DeSantis' proposed all government activities budget is 2.5% lower than the current year's budget.

Inflation is front and center this week, with the consumer price index report released on Wednesday and the producer price index on Thursday.

The study comes as the city faces a growing structural budget deficit and shrinking reserves that led to negative bond rating outlooks.

The deeper the proposed cuts, the more the municipal market fears for the fate of tax-exempt bonds.

The tax exemption has been in place for more than 110 years, but Republicans say its removal is vital for prolonging many parts of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Charter schools drove the worst January ever for impairments since Municipal Market Analytics began tracking default trends, the firm said in a Feb. 5 report.

The executive director of the Puerto Rico Oversight Board suggested non-settling bondholders might be offered recoveries of about 4% of the principal due.