Public finance

Yields jumped as much as 10 basis points as new deals saw some concessions as munis played catch up to the run-up in U.S. Treasury rates after the 10-year hit 1.75% mid-session. Refinitiv Lipper reports nearly $1.3 billion of inflows.

The rise of machine learning. Continued growth of electronic trading. Intensifying automation. Stephanie Sparvero, Global Head of BVAL Evaluated Pricing at Bloomberg, talks about these issues and more in how the muni market is charting a changing muni landscape. Lynne Funk hosts. (30 minutes)

The Fed remains dovish, although it raised inflation projections and lowered expected unemployment rates, but most participants still see rates at the zero lower bound in 2023.

The pandemic and the resultant lockdowns have hit employment in the 50 states worse than they have on the island, which saw a 1.6% decline.

Illinois rode the tailwinds of market demand for higher-yielding paper and its rosier fiscal picture, sending its primary market spreads to their lowest since 2014.

A repricing of Illinois GOs saw the bonds bumped by 12 to 20 basis points from Tuesday's preliminary pricing wires and 17 to 25 basis points from Monday's price talk.

The legislation is likely to end up as part of a larger infrastructure bill.

BJC Health System is selling $805 million of mostly refunding debt with its ratings and balance sheet intact as its manages COVID-19 pandemic wounds.

A bill backed by the Municipal Employees’ Annuity and Benefit Fund underscores the fiscal strains created by Chicago's pension underfunding.

Paul Gray, co-founder of IronHold Capital, links the unfunded liability problem to bad public policy decisions and bad hedge-fund actors. Paul Burton hosts (13 minutes).

A reversal of fund flows and the arrival of the economic aid for states and local governments helped boost the market's morale ahead of $10 billion in new-issues supply this week.

At issue is at least $340 million, the cities claim they are not liable for. The suit could impact the viability of the proposed plan of adjustment, but sources say the suit is unlikely to succeed.

The pair of unregistered brokers will pay over $2 million in civil penalties.

Denver is selling $274 million of dedicated tax bonds in a deal to fund projects at the National Western Stock Show complex and Colorado Convention Center.

Planning will require favorable tax policies, sophisticated capital programing, bond financing, and pioneering public-private partnerships. It also requires a cohesive national, bipartisan infrastructure plan as a foundation to begin addressing this impending infrastructure crisis.

Municipals largely ignored the moves to higher yields in U.S. Treasuries as participants await the largest new-issue calendar of 2021 and big-name deals out of New York and Illinois.

Although all of the proposals have some bipartisan support in Congress, the extent of that support remains unclear.

Inflows return, stimulus set, new deals on fire — the municipal market reaped all the benefits. Initial jobless claims dropped more than expected in the week, as reopening continued slowly, but the total remains higher than any week before the COVID crisis hit.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has increased its focus on climate change disclosure in the corporate market.

The governor spotlighted his five-year infrastructure spending plan during the speech held amid the threat of a recall.