Public finance

Premont, Texas, residents were asked Thursday to get out of survival mode.

Municipal bond market participants are looking at this week’s $8.26 billion new issue slate, which is dominated by a big California healthcare issuer. This week’s calendar is composed of $6.51 billion of negotiated deals and $1.75 billion of competitive sales.

Pricing wires for competitive bond offerings

Pricing wires for negotiated bond offerings

Jeff Morales, head of California's High-Speed Rail Authority, announced his resignation.

Aiding homeless people and improving transportation are priorities for L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti.

The municipal market is set to see a bump in new supply next week, something that market participants have been craving.

The Iowa fertilizer project used more than $1 billion of private-activity borrowing.

Puerto Rico got positive revenue and economic news for March.

Former Vice President Joe Biden urged transportation planners to get out of their comfort zone.

Trump’s 2018 budget will include $200 billion of new infrastructure spending, OMB director Mick Mulvaney says.

Virginia’s budget imbalance stemming from soft revenue growth and spending down its savings led S&P Global Ratings to revise the outlook to negative on the state’s AAA general obligation rating.

With early voting set to start next week, the Sherman, Texas, Independent School District has used a variety of methods to pair the public with information regarding the $308 million bond up for vote.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. -- City council Thursday night bought the sales pitch made by the administration for a long-term debt restructuring deal that includes funds to replace sections of Solomon Creek wall.

The Gateway plan to add a second rail tunnel linking New Jersey with Manhattan has funding challenges.

Atlantic City’s new proposed structurally balanced budget is a credit positive for the junk-rated city, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

Municipal bonds were unchanged at mid-session, according to traders, who were looking ahead to next week’s new issue calendar. Ipreo estimates volume at $8.26 billion, up from a revised total of $5.94 billion this week, according to updated data from Thomson Reuters.

Oregon implemented a state government hiring freeze.

Assured Guaranty and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP increased their leads in the municipal bond insurance and bond counsel rankings in the first quarter, as political uncertainty and higher interest rates cut into the volume of transactions.

The rating pains of Illinois' public universities took a turn for the worse.