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Search and rescue operations in Los Angles Wednesday in the wake of the Palisades Fire. Bloomberg News Fitch Ratings placed four credits — led by the city of Los Angeles the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power — on rating watch negative, citing the region’s wildfires. Fitch also placed two utilities tightly linked to

Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., chairs the House Ways and Means Committee weighing the tax-exemption’s fate. The House Ways and Means Committee is considering the total elimination of tax-exempt bonds, according to a 51-page list of targeted programs, policies and plans for a reconciliation bill obtained Friday by The Bond Buyer. It’s a wide-ranging and tentative

Issuance in 2024 surged to a record $500 billion-plus figure. The muni market saw a record $507.585 billion of debt issued in 2024, up 31.8% from $385.061 billion in 2023, according to LSEG data. The increased par amount was achieved in 9,041 in 2024, up from 8,094 in 2023, according to LSEG data. BofA Securities remained

Louisiana State Treasurer John Fleming said he would lobby Fitch Ratings for a rating upgrade.Bloomberg News Louisiana plans to sell bonds four more times this fiscal year and at least twice more in the next fiscal year, a Louisiana state official said Thursday. Amounts were not discussed and were not immediately available. The state will

Orlando Health last year acquired an 80% stake in Brookwood Baptist Health, the parent of Princeton Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama.Orlando Health Orlando Health priced $853 million of tax-exempt bonds this week to fund recent acquisitions and its future capital program. The deal has a seperate taxable component. The tax-exempt Series 2025A priced Wednesday.

Dr. Bob Froehlich, John Rogers, Jr. and Diane Swonk took the stage at the Executives’ Club of Chicago’s Annual Economic Outlook panel Tuesday.Executives’ Club of Chicago The Fed may have two more rate cuts in store this year, there is a floor forming under the Treasury bond market, a short recession is a possibility, and

As cigarette sales decline and tobacco giants lose market share to vaping upstarts, some assumptions underlying tobacco securitization bonds have been upended.Bloomberg News Less than five years after Ohio restructured the credit to avoid a default, the Buckeye Tobacco Settlement Financing Authority needed a debt service reserve draw to pay holders of its tobacco settlement

<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/21164578/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Municipals were weaker for the third consecutive trading session amid a heavy new-issue calendar, while U.S. Treasury yields fell slightly and equities ended mixed. Several large new-issues priced into a weaker market, including San Francisco International Airport, Jacksonville Electric Authority water and sewer bonds, Miami-Dade County School Board, Dallas

Oklahoma City is seeking financing proposals for a downtown arena to replace Paycom Center, where the National Basketball Association’s Thunder has played since 2008.Adobe Stock Oklahoma City will review proposals due this week on ways to finance a downtown arena to replace Paycom Center, the home of the National Basketball Association’s Thunder, at a cost

When Alfred H. Williams got his start in the industry, the only way to know what was in the market was the “blue list.” “Most people had their blue list delivered to their office,” said Glenn Williams, Williams’s son. “Along with the morning paper, we had a blue list on our front porch.” Williams’s dedication

Bloomberg News The new Republican House and Senate have assumed power and Inauguration Day for the second Trump Administration is soon to follow. This year will be an exciting one of change for our country, and surely the municipal bond industry will keep an eye on Washington as Congress works to extend key provisions of

<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/21101826/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Municipals were steady throughout most of the curve outside of small bumps on the short end while municipal bond mutual funds flipped back to inflows for the first week of the year. U.S. Treasury yields fell slightly and equities were mixed. Investors added $842.4 million to municipal bond mutual

East High School in Denver. Moody’s Ratings upgraded Denver Public Schools’ general obligation ratings ahead of an $806 million bond sale later this month.Adobe Stock Denver Public Schools will sell more than $800 million of bonds later this month, buoyed by a ratings boost from Moody’s Ratings, which cited the district’s strong management for the

John Miller joined the boutique firm First Eagle Investments in late 2023 where launched a high-yield fund that climbed to $5 billion the first year with returns of almost 12%.First Eagle First Eagle Investment’s new high-yield municipal bond fund ballooned from scratch to more than $5 billion in its first year — and generated market-beating

<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/21116027/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Municipals could not ignore the sharp selloff in U.S. Treasuries Friday following the hotter-than-expected jobs report as both markets saw losses across the curve. Equities also closed with large losses as more market participants expect the data to temper Federal Reserve rate cuts.  The December jobs report took a

“The risks to the budget we are facing include stock market volatility, uncertainty around federal policy and tariffs, which could have some impact on California,” said Finance Director Joe Stephenshaw.California Department of Finance The devastating fires affecting Los Angeles took center stage Friday when California’s finance director presented Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed $322.2 billion budget.

Daniel Wiles retired from Los Angeles County in December, but continues to serve on the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board.MSRB Daniel Wiles has lived in southern California for more than two decades, but it hasn’t altered the ingrained humility of the Minnesota native. Wiles, who retired — mostly — from a long municipal finance career at

Homes in Larchmont, in New York’s Westchester County, which received and S&P upgrade to AAA>Bloomberg News Westchester County is ringing in the new year with a new AAA rating from S&P Global Ratings.  S&P’s analysts cited growth in the county’s reserves, conservative budgeting and strong sales tax revenue as the reason for Tuesday’s upgrade from

The St. Paul hospital campus of Children’s Minnesota. The nonprofit health system plans a bond sale the week of Jan. 13..Children’s Minnesota Nonprofit health system Children’s Minnesota will refinance some debt and take out new debt to fund an electronic records transition, renovations at three hospitals and the purchase of medical equipment. The city of

North Carolina State Treasurer Brad Briner said his appointments to the state’s Investment Advisory Committee would improve the pension system’s growth. The North Carolina Local Government Commission approved several bond deals at its meeting Tuesday. Approved were $252 million, $90 million and $45 million of bonds for Mecklenburg County, a $200 million bond for the