Public finance

Only one of the two proposed bonds for Ardmore City Schools that went before voters on Tuesday was approved during a special election.

Two big deals from Illinois issuers are scheduled for sale on Wednesday as the Chicago Board of Education gets set to hit the market with the first part of its double-barreled offering and Illinois toll bonds are slated to be priced.

Approximately $900 million of costs would be financed through sales tax revenue bonds.

The biggest share of the funds, $31 billion, would be used to rebuild homes.

Competitive sales from the states of Washington and Wisconsin and negotiated deals from New York and Illinois issuers dominated Tuesday’s new issue slate.

The repayment of $80 million in lease-backed debt remains entangled in the standoff.

Budget secretary Benjamin Barnes' latest revenue estimate comes two weeks after lawmakers passed a $41.3 billion biennial spending plan.

The Pasco school bond vote remains too close to call.

Daryl Clements, Portfolio Manager of Alliance Bernstein, discusses strategies for sound performance in tobacco, healthcare, senior living, and stressed entity bonds. He focuses on the importance of spreads to relative value. In the wrap up, he focuses on the benefits of active versus passive management. Hosted by John Hallacy.

Chicago officials want to highlight the distinctions between the highly rated new securitization and the city's general obligation bonds.

Public school systems will face financial tests if the state seeks to reduce school aid or increase pension contributions, according to S&P.

Competitive sales from the states of Washington and Wisconsin and negotiated deals from New York and Illinois issuers dominated Tuesday’s new issue slate.

New York and Illinois deals top Tuesday’s new issue slate as municipal bond traders get ready to gobble up some deals in the primary.

Below-estimate state general fund revenues complicate pension funding decisions.

Developments on the tax reform front were not far from municipal bond traders' minds as they saw the first of the week’s new issues hit the screens on Monday.

The successful referendum to expand Medicaid eligibility is a credit negative, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

With a record $12 billion of bond proposals on ballots across Texas, voters approved more than 91%, according to the Texas Comptroller's Office

The federal government ran a $63.2 billion deficit in October, the Treasury Department reported Monday.

Title III bankruptcy Judge Laura Taylor Swain ruled that the Puerto Rico Oversight Board didn’t have the power to replace the leader of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority.

The elimination of private activity bonds would remove a financing tool that supports many public private partnerships.