Investments

ALABAMAOzark (City)Jun 23, 2011 . . . . . . $4,425,000

WASHINGTON - Amid a lackluster housing market, additional downgrades of military base projects and budgetary uncertainty, adjustment was the theme Thursday at The Bond Buyer's sixth annual military housing privatization conference.

CHICAGO - The University of Missouri Board of Curators will enter the market next week with $60 million of refunding system facilities revenue bonds as itgrapples with a steeper-than-expected cut in state aid made by Gov. Jay Nixon earlier this month.

Tax-exempt money market funds continued to bleed cash as investors withdrew $972.6 million and total net assets declined to $306.73 billion in the week ended June 20, according to the Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.

CALIFORNIATorrance (City)Jun 22, 2011 . . . . . . $38,000,000

CALIFORNIACalifornia Infrastructure and Economic Development BankJun 21, 2011 . . . . . . $150,000,000

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said Monday the state should stick with the current plan to build a $1.2 billion, 424-bed hospital in the city. Construction financing for the University Medical Center includes $407 million of hospital revenue bonds.

CALIFORNIADenair Unified School DistrictJun 21, 2011 . . . . . . $3,455,004

Table as of: 06/21/2011 15:54 PM Invisible Supply Issuer and purpose Amount* Approval

CONNECTICUTHartford County Metropolitan DistrictJun 21, 2011 . . . . . . $35,600,000

Corporate turnaround firms are known for rescuing companies on the brink of collapse in corporate America and on Wall Street, but lately some of them say they are putting more time and energy toward helping distressed state and local governments.

Bondholders, rating agencies and financial advisers may have never heard of the city of Portent Falls, but that's because it is the fictional municipality whose contentious bankruptcy case will be the focus of a free workshop aimed at bringing the financial, legal and negotiating issues of a major muni restructuring to light.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The fiscal distress in Jefferson County has elicited renewed calls from a financial analyst for investors to be cautious when buying debt sold by issuers from Alabama.

CHICAGO - The University of Illinois Thursday will refund outstanding debt and raise new money for the ongoing makeover of a major student housing complex that comes as Illinois' flagship public university has scaled back on capital plans amid ongoing delinquencies in state support.

Bloomington plans to issue $13 million of revenue bonds to finance the acquisition of 12 acres of downtown property from Indiana University. The city hopes to then sell the land to a developer for residential and retail projects.

ILLINOISEvanston/Skokie Community Consolidated School District No. 65Jun 20, 2011 . . . . . . $12,000,000

ALABAMAFlorence (City)Jun 20, 2011 . . . . . . $20,600,000

With tax-exempt yields at or near 2011 lows, investors have been balking at stingy nominal yields in recent weeks. But ­strategists say buying ­opportunities abound for those willing to buy lower-rated bonds.

DALLAS — Texas will leverage its strong credit to raise its reputation in higher education this week with $152 million of student loan bonds.

MASSACHUSETTSMarshfield (Town)Jun 16, 2011 . . . . . . $3,125,000