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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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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has submitted his nominations for the new Chicago Infrastructure Trust to the City Council.
July 10 -
After falling from August 2009 to February 2012, local government employment may finally have turned a corner in the last four months.
July 9
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The wave of mergers sweeping across the non profit health care sector the past two years is a positive trend for hospitals as well as for investors who like to buy hospital bonds, Fitch Ratings said in a new comment.
July 9 -
A tightening of municipal bond yields in various pockets of the secondary market highlighted an otherwise quiet trading session Monday.
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If allegations that banks manipulated Libor prove to be true, those actions likely cost municipal bond issuers with swaps linked to the rate tens of millions of dollars, according to experts.
July 6
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A U.S. appeals court will take up a lawsuit as early as October that attacks the financial backing of billions of bonds paying for the Washington Metrorail's Silver Line Extension to Dulles Airport.
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