Primary bond market

The demand component of the municipal bond market is continuing to drive firm prices,

Municipals remained strong on Monday as a Wisconsin school district sold GOs in the primary market.

Intel Corp. is this week’s top headline act in the municipal bond primary market as issuers in Arizona and Oregon prepare to sell $650 million of industrial and economic development revenue bonds.

IHS Markit Ipreo forecasts weekly bond volume will increase to $4.9 billion.

Issuers in the Northeast sold $95.5 billion of municipal bonds in 2018, off 21.3% from 2017 with an even more pronounced fourth-quarter drop.

Municipal bond buyers are looking forward to a more robust new issue slate for next week.

Municipal bond buyers gave a warm reception to the two deals totaling $473 million.

Municipal bond buyers saw new issue supply rise on Thursday, led by issues in Louisiana and North Carolina.

Seasonal trends have favored munis so far this year, according to Blackrock's Peter Hayes.

A big competitive sale from a Texas issuer hit the screens on Wednesday,

Portfolio managers look likely to drive demand for this week’s new issue slate, which totals under $3 billion.

Munis showed strength as traders returned to work on Tuesday after the three-day holiday weekend.

Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp.'s restructured bonds started actively trading on Friday.

IHS Markit’s Ipreo forecasts weekly bond volume will hit $2.8 billion next week.

The weekly average yield to maturity of The Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index, which is based on 40 long-term bond prices, fell to 4.06% from 4.09% the week before.

Florida, Newark, and Missouri Health priced bonds as the week's action wound down.

The municipal bond primary was winding down on Thursday as the last of the week’s deals were hitting the screens.

Tracy Palandjian, CEO of Social Finance, and Herve Duteil, Chief Sustainability Officer at BNP Paribas, join Chip Barnett of The Bond Buyer to talk about the new and growing field of social impact bonds and what it is about them that appeals to both issuers and investors.

Municipal CUSIP requests increased in January on a year-over-year basis as new deals swarmed into the market.

More new supply hit the screens led by general obligation deals from the District of Columbia and Delaware.