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The California Housing Finance Agency showed it's possible to buy time, and not just kick the can down the road, when faced with significant financial challenges, according to a Municipal Market Advisors report.
February 19
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Lawyers for Detroit told the bankruptcy court Wednesday the city plans to file a motion proposing a new swaps settlement with UBS and Bank of America in the next three to four days.
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The rise in high-deductible health plans could bring more pressure to bear on an already pressured non-profit health care sector, Fitch Ratings said.
February 19
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The benefits of stimulus spending on transportation infrastructure during economic downturns outweigh the initial cost, the Transportation Research Board says.
February 18
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Detroit's Cobo Hall, the riverfront convention center that a few years ago struggled to survive, is now touting itself as a model of regional cooperation that the bankrupt city can replicate as it tries to rebuild itself after bankruptcy.
February 18
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Supply will trail off again as a $400 million Metropolitan Transportation Authority is expected to sell amid an otherwise lackluster holiday-shortened week.
February 16
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Municipal mutual funds reported $82.1 million of net inflows in the week ended Feb. 12, bouncing back from a $227.3 million outflow the week before, Lipper FMI said Thursday.
February 14
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Detroit's attempt to invalidate $1.4 billion of pension certificates as part of its bankruptcy is unlikely to be copied by other certificate issuers, according to Moody's Investors Service.
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Bond Buyer indexes finished the second week of February largely unchanged.
February 13
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Conservative financial structure of grant anticipation revenue bonds will buffer their credit ratings if federal highway funds drop in fiscal 2015, Standard & Poor's predicts.
February 13
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Mayor Bill de Blasio's preliminary $73.7 billion budget proposal for New York City still leaves more questions than answers, some capital markets observers said.
February 13
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Detroit is set to file a long-awaited plan to adjust its debt next week whether or not it has nailed down certain proposals, such as the lease of its water and sewer system.
February 13
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Sen. Ron Wyden, the new chair of the Senate Finance Committee, has recently voiced some ideas that would favor the municipal bond market, such as extending bond-related and other expiring tax provisions and reinstating Build America Bonds. But the Oregon Democrat's past actions, such as sponsoring legislation that would favor tax-credit over tax-exempt bonds, have posed threats to the muni market.
February 13
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Tax-exempt money market funds added $1.25 billion of new cash to boost total net assets to $270.12 billion in the week ended Feb. 10, according to The Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.
February 13
