Secondary bond market

Municipal bond volume is set to rise in the last week of October.

The number of MSRB-registered dealers has fallen by almost one-third since 2009 and FINRA and the MSRB have some concerns about it.

Municipal bond supply takes a leap forward next week as Chicago’s Sales Tax Securitization Corp.’s $1.31 billion deal headlines the new issue calendar.

Municipals remained mixed as deals from Phoenix airport and Chicago issuers came to market.

The municipal securities market is slowly looking more like the stock market.

The pre-trade information available on alternative trading systems to broker-dealer participants would likely benefit all municipal securities investors if made more publicly available, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s chief economist said in releasing a report Thursday that is to be presented to a market structure advisory group next week.

Municipals were mostly stronger at mid-session as the last of the week’s big deals came to market.

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Municipals remained stronger as Montgomery County, Maryland, came to market with a triple-A-rated sale.

Montgomery County, Md., came to market on Wednesday with a triple-A-rated general obligation bond offering.

Volatility in the equity market spurred a flight to quality.

Municipals were stronger at mid-session as new supply started to trickle into the market.

Puerto Rico bonds gained in a mixed muni market as a revised fiscal plan projected a bigger surplus.

Municipal bonds were stronger on Monday ahead of this week’s rather paltry new issue supply calendar.

Weekly bond volume is forecast to fall to $5.9 billion from $10.3 billion in the prior week.

Municipal bond supply plunges to under $6 billion next week after seeing over $10 billion of new issues priced this week.

The last of the large municipal bond deals came to market on Thursday, led by a $1.5 billion healthcare offering from Ohio.

Fitch Ratings said it won't lower its ratings because of JEA's litigation attempting to shed a power purchase agreement with Georgia's MEAG.

Things began to quiet down in the municipal bond market on Thursday, as most of the big deals have come and gone for the week.

Investors saw more volume hit the market on Wednesday as California sold nearly $900 million of municipal bonds.