Public finance

Airports will suffer from American Airlines impending layoffs of more than 4,000 employees, Moody's Investors Service said Monday.

LOUISIANA

ALABAMA

Table as of: 09/21/2012 17:04 PM Invisible Supply Issuer and purpose Amount

Municipal bond investors can expect another week of relatively solid issuance. Potential volume is expected to total $7.70 billion, up from sales of $7.36 billion last week.

Credit analysts aren't sure what the impact of the new generation if huge cargo ships will be on U.S. ports, but industry leaders and engineers are sounding the call for billions of dollars in additional investment in America's marine infrastructure.

Table as of: 09/20/2012 17:10 PM Invisible Supply Issuer and purpose Amount

CONNECTICUT

ALABAMA

Strong demand for municipal bonds buoyed prices throughout the week. Muni Bond Buyer indexes fell noticeably, reflecting the lower rates.

Investor demand outlasted the end-of-summer doldrums with robust inflows to municipal bond mutual funds. But the past week saw those flows to weekly reporting funds fall to more modest levels, $256 million in inflows for the week ended Sept. 19.

Fitch Ratings is negative on localities and expects an increase in their defaults and bankruptcies.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Thrash Thursday morning granted Atlanta another 13 years to complete consent-related work on its massive sewer repair program.

After garnering over $1 billion that ended a nearly month-long, outflow pattern last week, tax-exempt money market funds were back in negative territory this week as they lost $449.9 million and total net assets settled at $269.80 billion for the week ended Sept. 17, according to The Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.

ARKANSAS

ARKANSAS

Moody's Investors Service is maintaining its negative outlook on U.S. states' credit.

Fitch Ratings placed all charter school bonds it rates on Rating Watch Negative after adopting changes to how it evaluates such credits.

CALIFORNIA

GEORGIA