Public finance

It only took a few seconds for members of the Pauls Valley Board of Education to give their official blessing earlier this week to setting a spring date for the next local school bond election.

Municipal and Treasury bonds weakened as stocks surged to record highs in early trading.

Gov. Charlie Baker's group will examine changes in technology, climate and demographics.

City officials intend to fight language that they say would put the city on the hook for emergency repairs by the state-run MTA.

The Sales Tax Securitization Corp.’s second offering faced a tougher market environment.

Gov. Ricardo Rosselló's plan to find private investors for Puerto Rico's power utility faces opposition from local leaders and may prove to be a tough sell to potential investors.

Several market participants said it’s hard to take such a proposal seriously.

The state will still review proposed and amended budgets, requests to issue debt and proposed collective bargaining agreements.

The city's bond lawyer was not at the meeting and the board wasn't given a fiscal note saying how much the borrowing would actually cost.

Evergreen Public Schools officials cited aging facilities and a growing population among the chief concerns driving this year's school facilities funding measure.

The $55 million deal would be the second leg of financing needed for the $571 million project.

Phil Murphy's audit mandate is described as the first step to restore the beleaguered mass transit agency’s finances and infrastructure.

Underwriters reportedly offered spreads to the Municipal Market Data’s AAA benchmark scale of 55 basis points on serials ranging from 2031 to 2038.

The cloud-based application is designed to help smaller firms access data on a broader universe of bonds.

MacKay Municipal Managers has released its list of the top five trends to watch for in the municipal market this year.

Talk of selling the island's power authority comes amid its restructuring of $8.2 billion in debt.

Tax-exempt private activity bonds, which came close to being terminated in tax reform legislation, are now a centerpiece of the Trump administration's leaked infrastructure plan -- and market participants hope to use this as a springboard for a return of tax-exempt advance refundings.

Gov. John Bel Edwards released a spending plan for 2019 targeting health care and higher education to bridge much of the deficit.

State agencies are also holding $2.3 billion of bills that can’t be paid until lawmakers approve appropriations, the state comptroller said.

A pre-marketing wire on the Sales Tax Securitization Corp.'s $366.2 million of tax-exempts indicates the Chicago deal may see wider spreads than in its bond sale last month.