Investments

The municipal bond market will see almost $7.9 billion of new deals head their way next week, as New Jersey tobacco's dominate the calendar.

After more than three decades in the research and portfolio management trenches, Nguyen will head municipal credit and professional services at Triangle Park.

After a quarter marked by increased interest in taxable issuance, strengthened state support for local credits, and rising demand from investors seeking shelter from volatility, the municipal market is adapting to its new tax law realities.

Oversight Board is continuing its struggle with the Puerto Rico government over fiscal plans.

In the week ended March 28, the weekly average yield to maturity of the Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index fell to 4.00% from 4.01% the previous week. The BB40 Index is based on the price of 40 long-term bonds.

The municipal market was winding up the week on a tentative note as Connecticut offered its general obligations to institutional investors.

Chicago expects to begin tapping $4 billion of bond authority for O'Hare by early 2019.

Bond Dealers of America urges the House Ways and Means Committee to take up and pass a bill that would restore advance refunding bonds according to prior law.

The bonds sold for the air cargo handling facility were rated BBB.

Municipal bond buyers were getting a piece of Connecticut's general obligation bond deal on Wednesday.

Without giving a reason, the Florida Supreme Court dismissed two appeals of the Poinciana Community Development District’s bond validation case.

Wake County school board member Don Agee says he will not support the next school bond referendum.

With flooding from Hurricane Harvey still fresh in voters' minds, officials in Texas' largest county see an urgent need for a flood-control proposal.

A deal in August would have allowed debt holders to get up to 75% of par value.

Moody's took action on four Ohio colleges, which still benefit from a state enhancement program that Moody’s affirmed at Aa2.

State government credit support will bring the junk-rated city's coming taxable bond sale up to investment grade.

The municipal market appears to be shifting away from its traditional retail-dominated status, which has implications for regulatory policy that's largely aimed at protecting the retail investor.

Municipal traders said the market was slightly firmer on Tuesday, though a lack of new supply was still curtailing opportunity for investors.

Borrowing plans cleared the Finance Committee after minority aldermen complained about diversity.

The Alamance County Board of Commissioners unanimously adopted a resolution setting 7.88 cents as the maximum tax increase to cover the cost of school and community college bonds, though time will tell what it really is.