Investments

After a difficult few years, municipal floating rate notes are regaining a foothold in the market.

ARKANSAS

CALIFORNIA

State Housing Finance Agency delinquency rates continue to rise despite an improving housing market, Moody's reports.

Municipal bond mutual funds recorded their fifth straight week of inflows, and their 62nd week of positive flows in the past 66 weeks.

The Municipal Bond Club of New York announced its new officers for the coming year.

Many in the municipal market saw this week as the right time to dump inventory and dive into what is one of the last large calendars of the year.

The Vermont Student Assistance Corporation entered into the closing agreement with the Internal Revenue Service over $165 million of education loan revenue bonds they issued in 1998.

California's state and local fiscal policies and the impact on credit ratings came under fire during a UCLA Anderson Forecast presentation Tuesday on the college campus.

An agitated U.S. Secretary of Transportation reiterated the Obama administration's support for high-speed rail investment, and fought vigorously to defend the controversial and partly bond-funded $68 billion bullet train initiative in California.

Total net assets among tax-exempt money market funds saw cash generation again this week, accumulating $757.5 million, which was more than last week's inflows.

CONNECTICUT

CALIFORNIA

Indiana floated a request for interest for firms looking to partner with the state on a new section of Interstate 69, which is the latest in a series of P3 transportation projects the state has undertaken.

The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York's board on Wednesday approved $175 million of new financings for healthcare, higher education, and non-profit institutions.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood may be sticking around at least a bit longer, according to the newly minted chairman of next Congress' House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

ARKANSAS

ARIZONA

Table as of: 12/04/2012 17:15 PM Invisible Supply Issuer and purpose Amount

For 2013 Fitch Ratings has more negative than positive outlooks on state and tax-supported local governments.