Public finance

INDIANA

CALIFORNIA

A $1.61 billion California various purpose general obligation offering will headline the primary market this week and contribute to the more than $8 billion of new supply, as volume nearly doubles from last week.

A burst of activity in the secondary market has pushed intermediate and long-term tax-exempt yields lower as the day's session crosses into the afternoon.

Municipal market participants foresee mostly a quiet Friday, in anticipation of a growing calendar projected to arrive next week.

Table as of: 10/17/2013 12:00 PM Invisible Supply Issuer and purpose Amount

ARKANSAS

ARIZONA

Outflows from municipal bond mutual funds continued their stranglehold on the market as demand faltered for a 21st straight week.

A sizeable anticipated calendar, an end to the standoff in Washington and cash-laden investors have provided some downward momentum to yields in the municipal market.

Lebenthal Holdings LLC next month will continue its expansion by starting a private wealth advisory division for retail and institutional clients and adding two Wall Street veterans to lead the endeavor.

Puerto Rico's efforts to stave off a growing financial crisis could turn its bonds into junk-rated debt, BlackRock's municipal bonds group said Thursday.

The municipal market opened Thursday's session with slightly lower yields following news that the U.S. government proved capable of stepping away from the financial abyss.

Tax-exempt money market funds lost $973.2 million reducing total net assets to $264.92 billion in the week ended Oct. 14, as outflows resumed after the prior week's gain, according to The Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.

ARKANSAS

ALASKA

Table as of: 10/16/2013 15:47 PM Invisible Supply Issuer and purpose Amount

Bond insurers are poised to withstand the possible fallout from ratings downgrades or defaults on the industry's $16 billion of Puerto Rico bond exposure.

Table as of: 10/15/2013 11:05 AM Invisible Supply Issuer and purpose Amount

ARKANSAS