Public finance

Washington will auction $483 million in two tranches on Tuesday.

A Senate bill holds drinking and wastewater infrastructure funding level to 2023, but advocates the SRFs could see cuts when the two chambers hammer out final appropriations.

"The lack of standardization is a very real problem that impacts all facets," said Ted Chapman, managing director and investment banker at Hilltop Securities.

Senior Choice Inc. failed to make interest and principal payments due Oct. 31 on its $15.9 million bond issued in 2006 by the Cambria County Industrial Development Authority, according to a regulatory filing Wednesday.

Triple-A muni yields fell 10 to 14 basis points while UST saw gains of up to 16bps out long as market participants consider a potential end to Fed rate hikes.

"The big question is: who's next? I don't think UBS is the end," said a veteran sellside market participant.

Representatives from the business, academic, legal and other disciplines gathered on Capitol Hill to take aim at the many SEC rule proposals initiated under Gary Gensler's tenure.

Large reserves will insulate states against downgrades in the near future, one rating agency says.

Nevada state officials have partnered with two companies that specialize in working with charter schools to create a $100 million revolving loan fund to build schools and refund existing high-interest debt.

Municipals closed out October in the red, the third consecutive month of losses for the asset class.

While some reliable options have emerged, market professionals remain hopeful the old advance refunding will return before the desire to bring it back loses any momentum.

A U.S. Bankruptcy Court hearing Monday will take up the university's winning bid for Mercy Hospital at last week's reopened auction.

The number of municipal bond delinquencies declined in the third quarter, despite some dramatic outliers that Moody's Investors Service characterized as idiosyncratic in a report released Monday.

While the FOMC statement will likely have very few changes, the post-minutes release press conference will be the wildcard.

The deal has new-money and refunding components and is expected to hit the market in a negotiated sale the week of Nov. 13.

The data indicates that 2023 could be "the potential start of a long-feared trend toward more higher ed impairments and, possibly, defaults," MMA's weekly Outlook report said.

October's total volume rose 29.3% to $37.156 billion in 661 issues from $28.738 billion in 614 issues a year earlier. New-money grew more than 30% while refundings were up by nearly 75%.

The rating agency cited ongoing positive financial and enplanement trends at the airport, which is planning a refunding.

The relief means little for traditional municipal issuers but will have an effect on some conduit borrowers and issuers "adjacent" to the municipal market.

Bond Buyer Senior Reporter Keeley Webster shares an interview with California Treasurer Fiona Ma on her run for lieutenant governor as a prelude to a fireside chat Wells Fargo Director Julia Kim conducted with the state treasurer at The Bond Buyer's California Public Finance conference.