Munis

Write-downs on two major U.S. public-private partnerships led to the company decision, Skanska’s president said.

Municipal bond supply takes a leap forward next week as Chicago’s Sales Tax Securitization Corp.’s $1.31 billion deal headlines the new issue calendar.

Municipals remained mixed as deals from Phoenix airport and Chicago issuers came to market.

Municipals were mostly stronger at mid-session as the last of the week’s big deals came to market.

The school district says fiscal gains allow it the option of going with a competitive sale on its short-term borrowing.

Five states also elect governors and voters in two states decide whether to restrict future tax increases.

The tax overhaul and rising rates started to bolster demand, partly offsetting the decline in issuance.

The 50 City Council members will ultimately have to sign off on new revenue needed to achieve actuarial funding.

A muni advisor facing an enforcement action could use a Supreme Court decision on gambling as a defense, a bond lawyer says.

Voters in one of the nation's fastest-growing counties will decide on a $750 million bond measure for roads as one of its school districts seeks $690 million.

The impact of the 2008 crisis led Congress and the MSRB to reshape many of the ways business is done in the municipal bond market. Part 1 of The Bond Buyer's series on the decade after the financial crisis.

What began as trouble in the housing and mortgage markets shook the whole world in 2008, including a municipal bond industry that had to learn to live without bond insurance, auction-rate debt and some big investment banks.

Weekly bond volume is forecast to fall to $5.9 billion from $10.3 billion in the prior week.

Municipal bond supply plunges to under $6 billion next week after seeing over $10 billion of new issues priced this week.

The last of the large municipal bond deals came to market on Thursday, led by a $1.5 billion healthcare offering from Ohio.

The city is also considering its first general obligation bond issue since 2017.

Regulators already have a template around which to build an exemption from Volcker for tender option bonds, wrote SIFMA's Michael Decker.

Only two Michigan school districts remain under state oversight.

The MSRB needs to better explain the mock advertisements in its compliance resource, a pair of industry groups told the board this week.

Things began to quiet down in the municipal bond market on Thursday, as most of the big deals have come and gone for the week.