Month: October 2024

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has put out a request for information on its rate card fee setting process, further indication that the board is still working through potential modification and upgrades to how it goes about setting and collecting its underwriting, transactions and trade count fees. This was approved during the board’s first quarter

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks at the Democratic National Convention earlier this year. Johnson on Wednesday unveiled his fiscal year 2025 budget proposal.Bloomberg News Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Wednesday proposed a $17.3 billion fiscal 2025 budget that calls for a $300 million property tax increase, a move that reverses a campaign promise but avoids

U.S. home sales declined 2.9% in August, according to Freddie Mac, with existing home sales falling to the lowest level since October 2010.Bloomberg News As housing costs remain high, housing finance agencies in the Midwest are selling bonds to finance mortgage loans to buyers of single-family and multifamily homes. Existing home sales declined in August

Secondary trading showed a weaker tone Tuesday but the focus shifted to the primary as a large slate of new issues along the credit spectrum were priced, while U.S. Treasuries improved and equities closed the session mixed. The primary was led by two large California issues, including the state’s competitive sale of tax-exempt and taxable

Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros, opened in 2000 as Enron Park.HCHSA The Harris County-Houston Sports Authority heads to market Tuesday with roughly $330 million in a refinancing that will flatten its debt service schedule, shed its most subordinate lien and lay the groundwork for a new-money borrowing in the future. The authority

Municipals were little changed Monday as the market took a breather following volatility last week and ahead of what is expected to be the last sizable new-issue slate until well after the election. U.S. Treasuries were weaker and equities saw gains. The two-year ratio Monday was at 64%, the three-year at 63%, the five-year at

Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors. The 10 largest issuers of education issuance in the first half of 2024 accounted for $15.219 billion. The Los Angeles Unified School District ranked first with a $2.975 billion Build America Bonds redemption and general obligation bond refunding deal that priced in

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board will be issuing a request for information on its rate card fee setting process, one of the many topics that were discussed during the MSRB’s first quarterly board meeting of FY 2025 held Oct. 23-24. The rate card request for information will be out in the next couple of weeks,

Tom Vales, a muni bond electronic trading expert, has joined Build America Mutual’s board as an independent director. The bond insurer has seven board members, including three independent directors. Vales will succeed John White, who is retiring, according to a press release. “Tom’s career has been about making fixed-income markets more transparent and efficient,” said Seán

Record bond volume, a focus on climate, more floating-rate debt and broader integration of municipals into fixed-income markets is on the horizon for the public finance industry. Those are among the factors that will lead to market growth in 2025 and beyond, panelists at this week’s Bond Buyer California Public Finance conference said. The increase

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Beth Hammack said that while progress on lowering inflation had resumed in recent months, officials aren’t yet ready to declare their mission accomplished.  “We have made good progress, but inflation is still running above the FOMC’s 2% objective,” Hammack said Thursday, referring to the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee.