Washington

The election results will be the most important effect on the municipal market for the next six months, S&P Live Market Survey says.

As more people work from home, people could be more focused on building out broadband infrastructure.

Low-rated Long Island county looking to tap the Federal Reserve’s lending program for an upcoming note deals if rates beat the muni market.

Tax changes sought by the municipal bond industry are likely to be embedded into infrastructure legislation.

The MSRB also said it was looking for volunteers for two advisory groups.

Record new issuance in 2020 in the face of dealing with shutdowns, diminishing tax revenues and political unrest shows how resilient the industry is.

Many issuers in California specifically do not mention climate change in their official statements.

New Jersey had a choice between the Federal Reserve’s Municipal Liquidity Facility and the muni market for its upcoming $4 billion borrowing.

Uncertainty has been the code word since March — about the length of the pandemic, about the election, and many other issues. The markets hate uncertainty.

The board, at the first quarterly board meeting of its 2021 fiscal year, also voted to split its existing Nominating and Governance Committee into two.