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Several municipal bond provisions that have gotten strong support from muni lobbyists, market participants, and state governments and which were included in the Senate-passed highway bill may not survive eleventh-hour House-Senate committee negotiations, stakeholders say.
June 26 -
With the initial development period on military housing privatization winding down, coping with uncertainty was the theme of the Bond Buyer conference in Washington.
June 26 -
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Table as of: 06/25/2012 16:13 PM Invisible Supply Issuer and purpose Amount
June 26 -
The finances of local and state governments and other muni sectors generally improved from 2010 to 2011, according to McDonnell Investment Management, LLC.
June 25
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New Rule G-43 requires that broker's brokers make reasonable efforts to obtain fair and reasonable prices when conducting secondary-market "bid-wanted" auctions.
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In the aftermath of Moody's Investors Service downgrade of several key U.S. banks late Thursday, it downgraded roughly $64 billion in affected municipal debt Friday afternoon.
June 22
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At an anticipated $8.11 billion, municipal bond issuance this week should subside slightly. But because investors are neck-deep in heavy cash flows, the market has been absorbing healthy calendars over the past few weeks with only modest concessions to yields.
June 22 -
The latest round of TIGER grant funding will disburse nearly $500 million to 47 projects in 34 states and the District of Columbia, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Friday. The Department of Transportation received 703 applications from all 50 states, U.S. territories, and D.C. The awards ranged from $1 million to $21.6 million.
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The American Public Power Association and a California Public Agency have commented on proposed IRS governmental plan regulations, suggesting changes to provide certainty to existing participants in governmental plans.
June 21 -
Mary Schapiro, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, laid out a case for additional money market reforms before the Senate Banking Committee Thursday.
June 21 -
Moody's Investors Service downgraded several key U.S. banks late Thursday, possibly impacting municipal bonds.
June 21 -
Muni bond indexes were mixed on the week as the need to put truckloads of reinvestment money to work pushed investors to buy munis even while yields sat at barrel-scraping levels
June 21
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The tax-exempt money market sector saw a moderate decrease in cash in the week ended June 18 as $801.2 million exited the funds and total net assets settled at $271.40 billion, according to the Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.
June 21
