Investments

Moody's Investors Service lowered Roosevelt University's rating one notch to Baa3 as the Chicago-based school struggles with enrollment challenges.

Municipal experts say 2012 turned out to be a banner year for municipal bonds — as both demand and mutual fund inflows were strong and the market hit record levels.

Table as of: 12/17/2012 15:01 PM Invisible Supply Issuer and purpose Amount

ALABAMA

GEORGIA

The University of Kansas will ask the 2013 Legislature for $30 million of 10-year bonds to help build a $75 million facility in Kansas City.

A plan proposed by the National Institutes of Health could pressure United States universities, according to a report from Fitch Ratings.

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is at the forefront of a nationwide push to create a new tax-credit bond program for transportation investment.

Moody's Investors Service said that Georgia Perimeter College faces more negative credit pressure because its accreditation has been placed on warning by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, or SACS.

Table as of: 12/14/2012 10:07 AM Invisible Supply Issuer and purpose Amount

INDIANA

ALABAMA

After two hefty weeks, issuance in the municipal bond market should enter its holiday period and ride out the rest of the year.

CALIFORNIA

ARIZONA

The municipal market slogged through a long week of sell-offs as too much supply flooded into it all at once, prompting increases in muni bond indexes.

Investors sent money to municipal bond mutual funds for a sixth consecutive week, though at a decreased pace.

The corridor between Washington, D.C. and Boston is ripe for public-private partnership rail development if the government gets behind it, according to testimony given before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Thursday.

Trident Municipal Research, LLC and Savader Asset Advisors LLC have formed a strategic alliance to offer joint research content and service to investors.

The findings of the State Budget Crisis Task Force show that Virginia is in a stronger fiscal position than other large states, but still must begin making changes to close persistent funding shorfalls.