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Municipal managers and strategists, still reeling from Detroit's bankruptcy, the surge in Puerto Rico yields, and a mid-year sell-off that was the worst in a quarter century, are getting their portfolios ready for the next expected hurdle as 2014 approaches another spike in interest rates.
November 7
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Tax-exempt money market funds gained the first inflows in four weeks as $1.80 billion arrived in the week ended Nov. 4 and total net assets settled at $264.58 billion, according to The Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.
November 7
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Bond insurer Syncora Guarantee Inc. filed an objection to Detroit's effort to repair its broken down streetlight system with the use of the city's utility tax to back bond payments.
November 7
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Detroit late Tuesday asked the federal judge overseeing its bankruptcy case to approve a controversial $350 million debtor-in-possession financing.
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Leaders of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee chairman Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., have appointed six senators to join them on the conference committee that will reconcile two versions of water legislation, one of which contains a public-private partnership pilot program.
November 5
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Joseph J. Roberts, a director of institutional sales at M&T Securities Inc., has decided to step down at the end of 2013 following a 48-year career in the financial markets, mostly in the municipal bond industry.
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Brownstone Investment Group, a fixed income investment firm, brought aboard former Morgan Stanley trader Matthew Martines as managing director to expand its municipal bond trading and electronic market-making units.
November 5
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Tradeweb Markets completed the purchase of BondDesk and rolled out its rebranded retail group, called Tradeweb Direct.
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The federal government approved a $1.6 billion Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act loan for the New York Thruway Authority’s new Tappan Zee Bridge.
November 1
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The Virginia Supreme Court issued a ruling Thursday that allows the Elizabeth River Tunnels project to move forward as a tolled facility.
October 31
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Long-term municipal bond volume for October trailed 2012 issuance for the third straight month, much as it has throughout the year, falling 28% over the same period in 2012.
October 31
