States would suffer deep cuts in water infrastructure funding they receive through state revolving funds, which make up a significant corner of the municipal bond market, under a bill passed Friday by the U.S. House of Representatives. The fiscal 2024 Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations measure, House Bill 4821, totals $37.4

Washington is banking on its high credit ratings and strong demand on previous sales as it heads to market Tuesday with a $483 million competitive refunding.  The bonds will be auctioned in two series: $296.550 million various purpose general obligation refunding bonds, Series R-2024A and $186.225 million motor vehicle fuel tax and vehicle-related fees GO

While municipal bond issuance has dropped precipitously the past two years amid volatile markets, environmental, social and governance debt has steadily grown despite issuer hesitation to designate it as such and an ever-more acrimonious political environment emerges over it. ESG issuance for the first three quarters of 2023 was at $27.970 billion, potentially on pace

A Pennsylvania company that operates three nursing homes is in default, and it’s a familiar story: staff shortages and a large slump in occupancy in the aftermath of the pandemic. Senior Choice Inc. failed to make interest and principal payments due Oct. 31 on its $15.9 million bond issued in 2006 by the Cambria County

Municipals rallied hard Thursday following another day of U.S. Treasury market gains while equities closed the session up as investors contemplate the end of Fed rate hikes. Triple-A yields fell 10 to 14 basis points while UST saw gains of up to 16bps out long. These were the largest gains the muni market has seen

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler and his team at the SEC have increasingly come under fire for their aggressive regulatory agenda, and there is a growing push from the securities industry for the agency to give the market more time to digest the many overlapping proposals. That’s the takeaway from the latest House

The dramatic move last month by UBS Financial Services to lay off nearly its entire public finance team and exit the negotiated underwriting business is an extreme example of the cuts seen at big firms since January as the municipal market slogs through its second year of anemic issuance. But the Wall Street layoffs offer

Municipals were steady to end a volatile month, as U.S. Treasuries were mixed and equities ended up. Tuesday also marked the start of the FOMC meeting, which is unlikely to contain any major surprises at the conclusion of the meeting on Wednesday, said Cooper Howard, a fixed income strategist at Charles Schwab. The Fed is