Public finance

The weekly average yield to maturity of The Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index, which is based on 40 long-term bond prices, increased two basis points to 4.42% for the week ended Sept. 3 from 4.40% in the previous week.

The twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are bracing for potential impacts from a slowing Chinese economy.

Florida's Martin and Indian River counties launched new legal challenges to the private All Aboard Florida passenger train project within days of a scheduled $1.75 billion bond offering.

The Teamsters union and New England governors are making separate pushes for prompt action on long-term federal transportation funding.

The pair of new funds will invest in municipal bonds — principally in high quality obligations — that offer federal tax exemption.

Solutions to the public pension funding crisis go beyond numbers crunching, said Manhattan Institute pension expert Daniel DiSalvo.

FLORIDA

ARKANSAS

U.S. toll roads rated by Moody's Investors Service improved their finances in fiscal year 2014, the rating agency said.

Surplus toll road revenues will fund preliminary engineering studies on a potential rapid rail segment in north central Texas.

FLORIDA

NORTH DAKOTA

Hillview, Ky.'s bankruptcy filing offers more evidence that municipalities increasingly consider filing for reorganization as a way to cure balance-sheet problems, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Latest in a series of annual polls on transportation funding finds public will accept increase of gasoline tax if revenue dedicated to road work.

TEXAS

ARIZONA

Municipal volume is forecast to plunge to the lowest in six months as end-of-summer holidays approach.

The Detroit suburb of Allen Park wants bondholders to sell back at par $31 million of bonds floated for a now-failed film studio that the city blames for a long financial decline.

State lawmakers have authorized more than $8 billion of new road bonds in 2015, with billions more of new revenues up to the voters in fall elections.

Detroit snagged investment-grade ratings from Moody's Investors Service on its senior-lien water and sewer debt for the first time since before the city filed for bankruptcy.