Public finance

Budget pressuresled Fitch Ratings to downgrade New York's second-largest city to A-plus from AA-minus.

Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson said the city is forging ahead with the transaction to raise money to help pay its bills.

Moody's action followed Fitch putting the authority on ratings watch negative on Friday.

A bidding conference will solicit technological innovations and proposals for reimagining signal systems.

Fiona Ma was a keynote speaker at the Bond Buyer's California Public Finance Conference in San Francisco.

Paul Burton hosts from the Villanova School of Business campus in Philadelphia with finance professor David Fiorenza, where he and his "economics of art and entertainment" students discuss sports betting, casinos, stadium financing and Detroit bankruptcy art assets.

Vice President, Build America Mutual

Vice President, Assured Guaranty

More than 300 market participants, including 100 investors, attended the city's annual conference Friday to hear from Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Municipal bond supply will keep on keeping on this week, continuing a boom that started August.

After spearheading large capital projects at New York State’s nonprofit entities, Dr. Gerrard Bushell is set to tackle a $7 billion infrastructure initiative at one of the world’s major airports.

Downtown Dallas has seen a revival in recent years with residential conversions and more pedestrian-friendly design paid for with tax-increment financing.

Fiona Ma will give the keynote at the Bond Buyer's California Public Finance conference. Elsewhere, the market is gearing up for another interesting slate.

The Connecticut Housing Finance Authority will price the housing mortgage finance program bonds through negotiation.

The primary market was somewhat stagnant after the FOMC but things should revert back how they were before — with most deals getting put away quickly.

The household employment survey showed good economic news, while other measures were mixed.

Moody’s Investors Service citied continued operational and performance improvements for the upgrade to Baa1.

Bipartisan legislation to streamline TIFIA has been introduced in Congress by two Texans.

States and cities have begun to factor climate risk into budgetary and other planning.

Muni vet Dana Villanova has joined Kestrel Verifiers as director of business development.