Primary bond market

While Wall Street firms agree that municipal bond volume will drop from 2017, their estimates of how much range from 8% to 34%.

Municipal bonds are mixed at mid-session as the market awaits the start of this week's new issue activity.

The municipal bond market is waiting to see this week’s new issues as bonds traded mixed in early activity.

As stocks surged and Treasuries swooned, municipal bond traders gauged the direction of yields as they looked ahead to what may be a downturn in issuance this year.

The Vermont Housing Finance Agency is prepping the state’s first sustainability bond sale.

As stocks surge and Treasuries swoon, municipal bond traders bide their time gauging the direction of yields.

Municipal bond traders were returning to their desks on Tuesday with their eyes fixed on falling yields as they await a rather quiet primary market.

The municipal bond market will see a shortage of new supply kicking off the new year, after experiencing a record-breaking month in which almost $63 billion of bonds sold.

Issuers rushing to close PABs and refunding deals propelled issuance past the single-month record set before 1986 tax reform.

A second lawsuit was filed seeking to stop Gov. Chris Christie’s borrowing plans for new state office buildings.

The municipal bond market will see a shortage of new supply going into the new year, after experiencing a record-breaking month in which more than $61 billion of bonds sold.

In the week ended Dec. 28, the weekly average yield to maturity of the Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index fell to 3.91% from 3.93% the previous week. The BB40 Index is based on the price of 40 long-term bonds.

With the primary market at a standstill Thursday, attention turned to the first major deal of the New Year, a planned sale by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority that’s being challenged in court.

While there are no major bond issues on the slate for Thursday, one deal that is garnering some attention is next week's $381 million offering from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority

Muni yields dropped five basis points for the second day in a row, as volume and participants were scarce.

Yields have gone further south as minimal action occurs in the primary and the secondary, with most market participants on hiatus until after the New Year.

Municipal bonds strengthened Tuesday as the primary market shifted to holiday mode after breaking the December record for issuance.

The municipal market will be staffed by skeleton crews as the calendar has no negotiated deals and only small competitives, which don't even total $3 million — and another long holiday weekend right around the corner.

The muni market absorbed almost $58 billion, a record for December, before a holiday hiatus to end the year.

The long holiday weekend comes at a perfect time for tired muni market participants after a furious few weeks of action spurred by tax reform.