Public finance

Munis are in a holding pattern, NewSquare Capital's Kim Olsan said, and they're likely to remain so until the next FOMC meeting.

Revenue from the 0.4% tax would be earmarked for debt service and operating funding for a jail to replace the county's troubled detention facility.

A new bill would increase the capacity of state and local housing finance agencies to issue tax-free municipal housing bonds by exempting them from the PAB cap.

Moody's Ratings and Fitch Ratings both lifted their rating outlooks to positive on the San Francisco Unified School District.

NYC's final budget did enough for KBRA to bring its rating outlook on New York City back up to stable.

Munis are in a summer lull, waiting to see if CPI data will prompt the FOMC to hike rates, according to Cooper Howard, director of fixed income strategy at Schwab.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson appointed Ashlee Gabrysch, formerly senior director at Fitch Ratings, to serve as chief financial officer.

Activist groups say the approval process for a $5.8 billion lease-back bond for a joint venture steel plant has been too secretive.

As the level and delivery of infrastructure funding becomes increasingly uncertain and political, proponents of a national infrastructure bank are making their case.

The industry-shaping inductees helped shape the laws, practices, institutions and analytical approaches that underpin municipal finance, while building legacies that extend beyond individual deals and organizations.

Introducing The Bond Buyer's newest class of Rising Stars, who will be honored at an awards dinner in Chicago on Sept. 14-15, 2026.

The governors of Arizona and Nevada said their states would suffer disproportionately from the management plan for the drought-starved river.

The markets are in a "holding pattern" as they wait for news on the Strait of Hormuz and Fed policy, FHN Financial's Ajay Thomas said.

The scale of the evacuations and damage "underscore the growing credit risk that wildfires pose in the Pacific Northwest."

The demand has its limits, however.

Some public pensions "don't have good regular reporting on where their public equities are," which makes it hard to gauge the extent of the concentration, Equable Executive Director Anthony Randazzo said.

Market Intelligence analyst Jeff Lipton says muni investors should treat July as a reset, not a retreat, with positive flows, compelling taxable-equivalent yields and selective repricing supporting modest single-digit returns by yearend.

This week, issuance falls to an estimated $9.651 billion, with $6.611 billion of negotiated deals on tap and $3.04 billion of competitives, according to LSEG.

When Beth Wolchock began her career as an underwriter, she was often the only woman at the table.

The payroll data lowered fears of a rate hike, boosting munis and USTs.