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Harvard University braved the most volatile market in years this week to price a $750 million taxable deal. Princeton is hot on its heels. 

The vote advances a closely watched tax package.

In a 52 to 44 vote Wednesday, the Senate voted to confirm the nomination of President Trump's pick to lead the SEC.

Triple-A muni yields plummeted up to 50 basis points Thursday in a dramatic reversal from the week's earlier collapse. Speaking live at The Bond Buyer's Texas Public Finance event, market leaders painted a picture of extreme volatility, impaired liquidity, and an uncertain path forward.

"The equity market is looking at this more positively, but bonds are still thinking, 'Well, these tariffs still have to be resolved,'" said Kim Olsan, a senior fixed income portfolio manager at NewSquare Capital.

The top 25 state and local pension funds alone have seen the value of their public equities investments drop by a total of nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars in 2025, with roughly $169 billion of those losses coming during the four trading days that followed the Trump administration's April 2 announcement on global tariffs, a think tank said Wednesday.

Municipal AAA yield curves were cut up to another 42 basis points, depending on the curve, as of noon, pushing yields to multi-year highs and long-end muni to UST ratios above 100%. Muni yields have risen up to nearly 100 basis points in spots since the bond market rout began.

Municipal market advocates believe it won't take many muni bond "champions" to protect the financing tool.

Weakness in the muni market has been partly amplified by ETF selling; high-grade yields rose more than 60 basis points on parts of the curve over two sessions.

Municipal finance professors Justin Marlowe and Martin Luby wrote the paper after fielding dozens of calls about "this otherwise esoteric corner of public finance."