Investments

MASSACHUSETTSArlington (Town)Aug 19, 2008 . . . . . . $3,875,000

WASHINGTON - Airports and toll roads face a more uncertain future than other transportation sectors, Fitch Ratings said in a special report due out today. The agency revised its outlook for both airports and toll roads to negative from stable, and suggested the sectors may be undergoing permanent transformation.

Standard & Poor’s last week said Iowa State University’s credit would not suffer due to the devastating floods that hit the Midwest in June even as the university has reported preliminary costs of $232 million associated with flood-related repairs.

DALLAS - Plans to transform fast-growing Williamson County, Tex., into a hub of medical research and training gained momentum yesterday as Texas Tech University agreed to join a new education center near Taylor.

The municipal bond team at Evergreen Investments has a new leader. The Charlotte-based asset management firm has promoted Mathew Kiselak - a veteran with more than 20 years of municipal bond experience - to head of the municipal bond group effective immediately, the firm announced yesterday.

ALABAMAAttalla Water Works BoardAug 11, 2008 . . . . . . $580,000

IOWALinn-Mar Community School DistrictAug 18, 2008 . . . . . . $9,525,000

ARIZONAArizona School DistrictAug 14, 2008 . . . . . . $115,000,000

ILLINOISWinnebago CountyAug 14, 2008 . . . . . . $2,675,000

There will be a significant and noticeable bulge in note issuance this week when a $6.4 billion Texas note deal makes its way to the municipal market amid the dog days of summer.

The recent article ("Three Large Lenders Out of FFEL," Aug. 13) paints an incomplete picture of the department's loan purchase programs and the current student loan market overall.

Despite the credit crisis there has never been a better time to invest in fixed-income products, particularly triple-A commercial mortgage-backed securities, according to ...

Weekly reporting municipal bond mutual funds had a net inflow of $237 million during the period ending Aug. 13, AMG Data Services reported.

CALIFORNIACalifornia Housing Finance AgencyAug 13, 2008 . . . . . . $250,000,000

ARKANSASGreen Forest School District No. 32 of Carroll CountyAug 14, 2008 . . . . . . $1,900,000

DALLAS -Shreveport, La., will refund variable-rate bonds issued in 2000 to finance the expansion of a football stadium with next week's negotiated sale of $35 million of fixed-rate debt.

All of The Bond Buyer's weekly yield indexes declined this week, as tax-exempt yields dropped in nearly all the week's sessions.

Massachusetts officials are moving closer to selling a $400 million new-money, student loan bond sale, with hopes that the deal will gain as much investor interest as a recent New Jersey higher education loan transaction.

With a weekly gain of $5.69 billion, tax-exempt money market funds for the second week in a row set a new record for total assets, growing to $527.06 billion for the week ending Aug. 11, according to The Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.

CHICAGO - Indiana would privatize its state lottery or issue bonds backed by future lottery growth to fund a new college scholarship fund under a proposal set forth this week by Gov. Mitch Daniels.