Public finance

COLORADO

The American Road and Transportation Builders Alliance will focus on a potentially trend-setting challenge to a prominent Virginia public-private partnership at the group's annual conference July 24-26.

Former President Bill Clinton strongly urged Washington Tuesday to pass a national infrastructure bank bill and encouraged state and local governments to embrace more public-private partnerships.

Current tax-free yields are attractively priced compared to Treasuries, creating opportunity for municipal investors, says Alan Schankel of Janney Capital Markets.

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MASSACHUSETTS

MISSOURI

Australian infrastructure giant Transurban will concede the 8.8-mile Pocahontas Parkway toll road in southeast Virginia back to its lenders because the road failed to live up to its revenue projections.

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MASSACHUSETTS

CALIFORNIA

Municipalities throughout Virginia will receive a share of nearly $155 million in state funds to help with infrastructure projects, Gov. Bob McDonnell announced Friday.

Municipal bond investors, spooked that interest rates' climb from record lows is accelerating, continue to pull money from the market in record-breaking droves.

CALIFORNIA

ALABAMA

The Bond Buyer's weekly yield indexes increased significantly the week ended June 20.

Moody's Investors Service has downgraded to A1 from Aa3 the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority's $5 billion of airport revenue bonds.

A U.S. House panel has given initial approval to an appropriations bill that would slash funding from programs that support public infrastructure projects as part of an effort to cut federal transportation and housing spending by $7.7 billion.

Tax-exempt money market funds' inflows slowed to $819.6 million in the week ended June 17 after a $3.13 billion surge the week before, according to The Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.

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