Public finance

GEORGIA

A plan proposed by the National Institutes of Health could pressure United States universities, according to a report from Fitch Ratings.

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is at the forefront of a nationwide push to create a new tax-credit bond program for transportation investment.

Table as of: 12/14/2012 10:07 AM Invisible Supply Issuer and purpose Amount

INDIANA

ALABAMA

After two hefty weeks, issuance in the municipal bond market should enter its holiday period and ride out the rest of the year.

CALIFORNIA

ARIZONA

The municipal market slogged through a long week of sell-offs as too much supply flooded into it all at once, prompting increases in muni bond indexes.

Investors sent money to municipal bond mutual funds for a sixth consecutive week, though at a decreased pace.

The corridor between Washington, D.C. and Boston is ripe for public-private partnership rail development if the government gets behind it, according to testimony given before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Thursday.

Trident Municipal Research, LLC and Savader Asset Advisors LLC have formed a strategic alliance to offer joint research content and service to investors.

The findings of the State Budget Crisis Task Force show that Virginia is in a stronger fiscal position than other large states, but still must begin making changes to close persistent funding shorfalls.

A lawsuit challenging the legality of the Dulles Rail project's toll-powered funding mechanism will have to head to yet another venue after the federal court weighing the case decided it did not have jurisdiction to rule on the matter.

Tax-exempt money market funds amassed $2.92 billion in new cash as total net assets rose to $275.72 billion in the week ended Dec. 10, according to The Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.

ARKANSAS

ALABAMA

The transportation infrastructure sector is expected to be stable across the board in 2013 despite fiscal cliff pressures and long-term funding concerns, according to Fitch Ratings.

Fitch Ratings has assigned a stable outlook for 2013 to the colleges and universities sector, based on demand and enrollment, liquidity, and risk management.