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Kent Hiteshew, the director of the Treasury Department's new office of state and local finance, described the office's initial areas of focus and asked municipal government finance officials to provide input about how the office could be helpful.
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Municipal bond volume will jump to the highest level in four weeks as $5.7 billion is estimted to the priced this week, led by a Missouri transportation financing and a Connecticut general obligation offering that plan to vie for investors' attention as the week's largest deals.
May 18
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Congress is expected to pass a compromise water infrastructure bill this week that funds 34 projects totaling $12 billion.
May 16
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BlackRock Inc. says municipal bonds will extend April's gains as the second quarter progresses, though credit quality concerns remain for investors in Puerto Rico, New Jersey and tobacco bonds.
May 16
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The fight over Detroit's proposed 10% recovery for its limited-tax general obligation bonds heated up last week as Ambac challenged the treatment as a failure to understand the basics of Chapter 9 and municipal finance.
May 16 -
Municipal bond fund inflows declined in the week ending May 15 as gains by high-yield funds slowed.
May 16 -
Public finance guru Richard Ravitch, in a lengthy interview, discusses his new book and how cities and states haven't learned from New York's 1975 fiscal crisis.
May 16
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The Bond Buyer's muni bond indexes mostly strengthened in the week ending May 15.
May 15 -
Federal Judge Steven Rhodes Thursday shot down bond insurers' requests that they be given special access to Detroit's prized art collection for an independent valuation.
May 15 -
Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee gave its unanimous approval to six-year bill authorizing $242 billion of federal highway funding.
May 15
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Tax-exempt money market funds reported outflows of $1.19 billion in the week ended May 12, cutting total net assets to $257.73 billion according to The Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.
May 15
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President Obama pressed Congress to quickly increase spending on transportation infrastructure in a speech Wednesday at a bridge project work site.
May 14
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Identical bills recently introduced in the House and the Senate would create a federal "Green Bank" that would be capitalized by bonds issued by the Treasury Department and would provide loans and other types of financing support for clean-energy and energy-efficiency projects.
May 14
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The draft transportation bill released by a key Senate committee falls far short of funding needs by proposing only $242.4 billion for road projects over six years, administration officials and highway industry experts are warning.
May 14
