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Rafshoon will work in Hunton & Williams’ public-private partnership practice.

Alaska, unable to agree on budget stability, is blowing through its reserves.

Top-shelf municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session, according to traders, who were looking ahead to next week’s new issue calendar. which Ipreo estimates at $7.66 billion.

The MTA's new capital plan will include nearly $2 billion for the project to add capacity on the LIRR Main Line.

Municipal bond traders are waiting to see how much volume the market will encounter next week as they eye volatile muni yields.

A group of hedge funds that owns $3.3 billion of Puerto Rico bonds disclosed in court documents the amount that each of them holds.

Pricing wires for competitive bond offerings

Pricing wires for negotiated bond offerings

The weekly average yield to maturity of The Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index, which is based on 40 long-term bond prices rose two basis points to 4.11% from the previous week's 4.09%.

Affordable housing measures have taken center stage in Sacramento.

The downgrade affected $38.4 million of general obligation debt.

State balance sheets were driven by a new accounting standard that require reporting pension obligations.

Chicago is expected to take advantage of the new debt vehicle authorized in the Illinois budget.

Top-quality municipal bonds finished unchanged on Thursday, traders said, as more deals came to market in the last big push of the week.

It's two downgrades this week for Connecticut's troubled capital city.

The county’s 25-year, $339 million refunding sold with an all-in, true-interest cost of 3.38%.

The U.S. DOT hasn't taken requests for $500 million of TIGER grants for FY-2017, which ends Sept. 30.

The Treasury Department Thursday auctioned $12 billion of 29-year 10-month bonds with a 3% coupon at a 2.936% high yield, a price of 101.261161.

Uncertainty affected school and university budget planning in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Costly mandates and aging infrastructure are among the challenges S&P cited.