Public finance

The state's Local Government Commission approved more than $1.5 billion in bond and financing agreements, including more than $600 million for the airports.

The municipal market was marked by some skittishness among investors on Tuesday as a new month gets underway.

The federal government regulates vehicles, while states generally regulate drivers, an unofficial division that creates confusion.

Opposition to the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority’s $5 billion, bond-financed improvement and expansion project is heating up with a lawsuit seeking to block it filed ahead of a meeting to consider initial financing. 

States face a multi-trillion infrastructure gap, which they need to address with a sense of urgency, a speaker at the Milken Institute Global Conference said.

Holders of $4.3 billion of HTA bonds will receive $1.2 billion of new bonds with 5% coupons and $389 million of cash.

Municipal returns in April were deeply negative, bringing the year-to-date figure to near 9% losses, the largest posted on the Bloomberg Muni Index since its inception in the 1980s.

Texas ballots are bursting with $18.5 billion of bonds Saturday as cities and school districts ask voters to approve 207 bond measures.

The legislative clock is ticking as midterm campaigning ramps up, but the lame duck session offers a fresh opportunity.

With the ink still drying on the central government restructuring, analysts give takeaways from Puerto Rico's bankruptcy. Some point to credit fundamentals, others to lack of willingness to pay, as key drivers of the bankruptcies.

Illinois expects to sell about $1 billion of new-money general obligation debt but the deal could grow if market conditions permit savings on a refunding piece.

Investors will be greeted Monday with a steep drop in volume, with the new-issue calendar estimated at $4.583 billion — less than half of this week's supply.

Total April volume was $34.329 billion in 729 deals versus $37.105 billion in 1,124 issues a year earlier.

Improving tax revenues allowed the mayor to increase the size of his spending proposal while keeping the budget balanced.

Issue is disposition of $1 billion to $2 billion of Puerto Rico government funds.

Investors pulled more from municipal bond mutual funds in the latest week, with Refinitiv Lipper reporting $2.875 billion of outflows, down from $3.548 billion of outflows in the previous week.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg heard concerns from both sides of the aisle during his latest appearance on Capitol Hill.

The suit by local police pension funds slowed the consolidation process that Gov. J.B. Pritzker touted as helping local governments manage rising pension costs.

Several firms' ability to underwrite municipal bond issues in Texas is under review.

In the week ending April 13, investors pulled $5.526 billion from the funds, down from $7.227 billion of outflows in the previous week, ICI reported.