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The housing and transportation sectors had the biggest declines in municipal bond volume.

The region's bond issuers sold $55.4 billion of municipal debt during the first half of 2020, a 21.1% increase from the same period in 2019.

The structure in which bonds are backed by a lease of city streets is being used in the Southern California cities of Torrance and West Covina.

The mass transit agency, its finances reeling from the coronavirus, rejected bids from 10 different banks and sold $451 million of notes to the Municipal Liquidity Facility.

Its $125 million taxable social bond follows a $1 billion Ford Foundation deal as part of a multi-foundation pledge in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lauren Sobel, a municipal bond analyst at Bank of America, died in a rock climbing accident in Gardiner, New York.

The authority's issue will also provide new money to help finance renovations at the state's historic capitol building in Lansing.

Hector Matos brings years of experience as a Texas school finance expert and Citigroup banker to Raymond James' new San Antonio office, the firm said.

Huntington says the Michigan team that came over from Hilltop has experience covering local school districts and governments as well as the state.

The Federal Reserve reduced the interest rate spread on MLF tax-exempt notes by 50 basis points for each credit rating category.