Public finance

ARIZONA

FLORIDA

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell announced on Tuesday that he will recommend over $2 billion of funding for hundreds of transportation projects statewide, new money projected to come from his controversial overhaul of the commonwealth's gas and sales taxes.

INDIANA

ALABAMA

Table as of: 01/18/2013 16:54 PM Invisible Supply Issuer and purpose Amount

An estimated $9.19 billion is expected to be priced in the municipal primary market, compared with a revised $5.89 billion last week, as billion-dollar-plus deals from Ohio and New Jersey head the negotiated slate.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told municipal leaders meeting in Washington Friday that he would help protect the tax-exempt status of municipal bonds.

Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., has reintroduced two bills aimed at giving Virginia control of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and strengthening government oversight of the scandal-wracked issuer.

Illinois will take competitive bids on $500 million of GOs later this month in its first borrowing of the New Year and first test of market reaction to the General Assembly's failure to overhaul pensions.

Standard & Poor's revised its growth forecast for 2013 on state and local governments to be slightly higher and Fitch Ratings gave most sectors a stable outlook for the year.

Table as of: 01/17/2013 13:06 PM Invisible Supply Issuer and purpose Amount

CALIFORNIA

ARIZONA

Municipal bond mutual funds recorded a second consecutive week of strong flows, as funds that report their flows weekly saw $1.44 billion in inflows for the week of Jan. 16

Municipal bond mutual funds saw $43 billion in inflows in 2012, a huge increase over flow numbers from the previous two years.

Tax-exempt money market funds gave up two-thirds of the impressive gains they generated last week.

New York public health system Nassau Health Care Corp. captured an interest rate of 0.4% and saw broad investor interest Tuesday when it sold $40 million of insured revenue anticipation notes backed by future Medicaid payments.

The executive director of AASHTO, John Horsley, is going out with a bang, spending the final weeks before his planned retirement pushing Congress to make authorize $50 billion of tax-credit bonds and to change fuel tax policy.

Table as of: 01/16/2013 09:41 AM Invisible Supply Issuer and purpose Amount