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Wells Fargo will be joint senior manager on a $1.4 billion deal, its first negotiated California deal since State Treasurer Fiona Ma lifted a ban.

With demand at an all-time high and record inflows that is continuing to come into the market, one would think there would be more issuance.

The state sold tax-exempt refunding debt at 2019 rates but won't deliver them until 2021 when the call date of the original bonds is reached.

Whether new dedicated revenue for the MTA or its higher total debt holds more sway in the capital markets remains an open question.

Although municipal bond volume is expected to rise by almost $2 billion, it won’t be nearly enough to satisfy investors’ thirst for the asset class.

Rhode Island's governor is asking lawmakers to forward $269 million worth of initiatives to voters.

The mayor warned about looming state Medicaid cuts in his media briefing on the preliminary spending plan.

The state expects to set senior and co-manager pools with up to 15 firms each for an initial four-year term.

Demand for municipal bonds is much stronger in 2020 than it was to end 2019, illustrated by record inflows into the asset class in the latest reporting week.

The former FTN Financial increased its underwriting numbers in 2019 and parent First Horizon National merged with Iberiabank of Louisiana, adding more heft.

Huntington Beach approved a resolution to refinance up to $436 million of public employee pension debt with pension obligation bonds.

Bill Carabasi has 37 years of sales and trading experience in the fixed income and municipal bond markets.

California's I-Bank will be the conduit on the second set of bonds to finance construction of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

The authority approaches next week’s planned $2.5 billion of issuance buoyed by clearance of its five year, $51.5 billion capital program.

Jay Goldstone was considered instrumental in San Diego’s re-entry to the bond markets following the city’s pensions scandal in the mid-aughts.

The general obligation bonds are secured by property tax assessments that don't flow through a school district budget that is threatened with insolvency.

The city is folding together separate syndicate and advisor teams on $1.2 billion of general obligation and Sales Tax Securitization Corp. refunding deals.

The state's public pension funds will divest holdings in civilian firearms manufacturing companies and prohibit future investments, Shawn Wooden says.

San Francisco PUC's water revenue bond ratings were boosted to Aa2 ahead of sale.

The Bay State's transportation and congestion crisis puts its economic viability in jeopardy, officials say.