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Washington State's compromise 16-year, $16 billion transportation plan includes gasoline tax increase and $5.3 billion of state GO bonds.
July 2
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Chicago's junk paper offers an enticing opportunity, says one buyside professional who views the city's credit as being on the upswing with a long term solution to its pension woes within reach.
July 2
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Municipal bond issuers may find healthy demand for $4.9 billion of deals scheduled in the coming week, as investors look to put reinvestment money to work.
July 2
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About 53% of open end mutual funds have exposure to some type of Puerto Rico debt, down from almost 70% in 2014, according to Morningstar Inc.
July 2
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Issuers from Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan compared notes on market challenges at the Bond Buyer's Midwest conference; Illinois credits face the toughest sledding.
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Puerto Rico faces a fight from one of its biggest bondholders as it seeks to reduce debt service payments for several years.
June 30
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The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board is giving 529 college savings plan underwriters a 60-day extension on the first date data submissions are due under a recently adopted rule.
June 30 -
Puerto Rico's insolvency is a game changer that will have a deep and far-reaching impact on the market, municipal professionals said Tuesday at a Bond Buyer conference in Chicago.
June 30
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Single-A rated Chapman University's $130 million of unsecured general obligation bonds will seek bond investors flush with cash from July 1 interest payments.
June 30
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Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said it lowered its long-term rating and underlying rating to CCC-minus from CCC-plus on the University of Puerto Rico's existing university system revenue bonds.
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Gasoline taxes go up July 1 in six states to fund local highway projects while federal gasoline tax remains at 1993 level.
June 30
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Oregon Health and Science University will sell $100 Million of federally-taxable debt next week.
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Muni experts expect outperformance by high credit-quality issues, a decline in refundings, troubled credits to dominate the headlines, and the Fed to raise rates in the second half of the year.
June 30
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Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro García Padilla may have worsened relations with traditional municipal investors when he acknowledged long-standing concerns that the commonwealth cannot pay its $72 billion in municipal bond debts.
June 29
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States are making plans for another short-term extension or a possible cutoff of federal transportation funding on July 31.
June 29
