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Municipal market participants are praising rules finalized by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that except most state and local governments from having to clear interest rate swaps through a derivatives clearing organization.
July 12 -
The municipal market has been fairly energized this week by the simple economics of supply and demand.
July 12
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In a stunning reversal of recent patterns, tax-exempt money market funds amassed $4.64 billion of new cash as total net assets soared to $274.7 billion in the week ended July 9.
July 12 -
The market continued to show its confidence in municipal bond mutual funds with strong inflows following a holiday week of relative inactivity.
July 12 -
Nearly three-quarters of the tobacco settlement bonds rated by Moody's Investors Service will default if smokers keep up their current pace of kicking or cutting back on their habit, the agency warns in a new report.
July 12 -
An analysis of rating actions shows that public-private partnerships are highly exposed to the effects of downgrades and negatives outlooks applied to participants in the P3, according to a report from Moody's Investors Service released Thursday.
July 12 -
Aerostar Airport Holdings and Gruopo Aeuropuertos Avance submitted their proposals for a public-private partnership to run the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport this week.
July 12 -
With an eye toward expansion, Memphis-based FTN Financial Capital Markets recently brought on six new traders and sales professionals for its muni division.
July 12 -
One analyst is finding opportunity in the intermediate part of the yield curve – where the risk is modest and the rewards are the greatest compared to the short and long ends of the curve, and is also recommending the municipal market overall as a safe alternative at a time of shifting investor sentiment.
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Table as of: 07/10/2012 15:41 PM Invisible Supply Issuer and purpose Amount
July 11 -
Big bond commitments will be a major piece of the funding puzzle when it comes to constructing a national high-speed rail system, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood affirmed Wednesday.
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Lawmakers and financial market participants sparred over the economic and business impact of the Dodd-Frank Bill and the so-called Volcker Rule, as well as fallout from potential new money market rules.
July 10 -
Top Illinois finance officials are on the road to sell institutional investors on the tidy structure of the state's sale issue next week of $1.5 billion of double-A rated unemployment bonds that are insulated against the state's well-publicized liquidity and budget struggles.
July 10
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