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Thornburg Investment Management has launched a low duration municipal bond fund aimed at investors looking for a tax-exempt income stream as interest rates rise.
January 8
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Lawmakers next Tuesday will begin considering reauthorizing the federal surface transportation funding program at a hearing held by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
January 8
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Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr reversed a decision to close the bankrupt city's pension system for non-public safety employees and shifted it into a 401(k)-style defined contribution retirement plan.
January 6 -
President Obama's top economic advisor urges Congress to enter into a "grand bargain on jobs" in exchange for national infrastructure bank.
January 6
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A hearing on Detroit's interest-rate swaps and proposed borrowing was pushed back until Tuesday due to a massive winter storm in the Midwest.
January 6 -
The municipal market will see the first substantial influx of new issue volume this week after a holiday lull that was marked by few new bonds.
January 5
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Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr said he asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate the city's interest-rate swaps amid "serious questions" about the legality of the financings.
January 3
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The municipal bond market capped a light year of issuance with a 6% drop in long-term volume in December.
January 3
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U.S. port infrastructure projects may get some breathing room as another delay looms for Panama Canal expansion.
January 3
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Outflows from municipal bond mutual funds persisted for a 32nd straight week, at $1.47 billion.
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More public transit options do not reduce highway congestion and fewer options do not make it worse, according to an analysis by Reason Foundation.
January 2
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Reduced federal funding prompts Kentucky and Ohio to consider using a P3 to build the $3.57 billion Brent Spence Bridge Project between Kentucky and Cincinnati.
January 2
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As Detroit gears up to file its plan of adjustment this month in its historic bankruptcy case, the chief mediator in the case ordered the city Tuesday to meet with bondholders in a series of mediation sessions next week.
December 31
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