Public finance

Dallas Fort Worth International Airport will bring its first new money issue since 2017 to the municipal bond market next week, buoyed by an rating upgrade.

The board said the projects will result in up to $387 million of savings over a 15-year period.

Next week's potential volume is slated to be more than $8 billion, led by $1.25 billion of taxable and tax-exempt future tax-secured subordinate bonds from the New York City Transitional Finance Authority.

Even deals that go bankrupt can be seen as successes in the U.S. P3 market, which may face an "inflection point" with the new infrastructure law.

Some critics say relying on federal aid may obscure the underlying problems Puerto Rico faces in the longer term as it emerges from bankruptcy.

Outflows continued, with Refinitiv Lipper reporting investors shed $1.503 billion from municipal bond mutual funds in the week, following outflows of $2.136 billion in the previous week. High-yield saw small inflows.

A large portion of Long Beach's downtown has been reshaped using public-private partnerships that delivered a new state courthouse and a city civic center.

Nuveen is asking a judge to toss Preston Hollow Capital's defamation claims as a summer trial looms.

Any new debt deal already would require rate increases to cover debt service on the authority’s roughly $9 billion of debt.

More outflows from municipal bond mutual funds were reported as bid lists surpass $1 billion 22 times in 2022.

Mayo is publicly offering $516 million of tax-exempt bonds and privately placing $200 million of taxables.

New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and city Comptroller Brad Lander lauded the SEC’s proposal, saying environmental transparency is beneficial to the state and city pension plans.

The state under transportation secretary Shawn Wilson is gaining a national reputation for pursuing P3s for tolled bridge replacements.

The California Health Facilities Finance Authority will price the final authorization of $1.05 billion from the $2 billion program on Tuesday.

The Virgin Islands Public Finance Authority and Matching Fund Special Purpose Securitization Corporation plans to price $793.025 million of tax-exempt and $124.960 million of taxables.

The triple-A 10-year yield is above 2% on all scales, the highest since March 2020.

The Chicago Transit Authority's sales tax pledge remains healthy even as it struggles to recover riders amid rising crime and remote work trends.

Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. and Assured Guaranty Corp. both resolved their exposure to its insured Puerto Rico debts leading to the upgrade to A1.

Muni performance has been strong as of late, and spreads have actually corrected after a month of gradual widening.

The Sites Reservoir received two doses of good news on its financing last week — a federal loan and an increased allocation from a 2014 statewide bond.