Month: June 2024

Municipals were steady Tuesday ahead of Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting and Consumer Price Index report, as U.S. Treasury yields fell and equities were mixed near the close. “The market’s great expectations regarding Fed cuts have witnessed a dramatic downward adjustment since the start of the year,” said Vikram Rai, head of municipal markets

With the Federal Open Market Committee unlikely to change the fed funds rate target at this week’s meeting, the markets will concentrate on the Summary of Economic Projections and whether it shows expectations reduced to one or two 25 basis point rate cuts this year from the three suggested by the previous dot plot. “Three

Municipals were little changed Monday as investors await a smaller calendar amid an FOMC week, outperforming Treasuries, which saw small losses, while equities were up near the close. The two-year muni-to-Treasury ratio Monday was at 65%, the three-year at 65%, the five-year at 66%, the 10-year at 65% and the 30-year at 82%, according to

S&P Global Ratings upgraded the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority’s senior-lien airports facilities bonds to AA from AA-minus with a stable outlook Friday, citing Orlando International Airport’s growing enplanement counts. “The upgrade reflects Orlando International Airport’s very high activity levels and long history of favorable enplanement trends supported by serving an expanding service area economy with

Struggling Pennsylvania hospital chain Tower Health plans to exchange current debt and raise additional funds as it pursues a turnaround.  The system, trustee and bondholders of about $992 million in debt are supporting an exchange of “substantially all” existing bonds, according to a May 31 agreement that Tower Health disclosed in a filing Monday on

The University of Arizona expects more strain on its cash flow in the coming fiscal year as it offered a peek at underlying assumptions for its next budget. In a presentation to a Arizona Board of Regents committee on Thursday, the university’s preliminary forecast of days cash on hand for fiscal 2025 showed it slipping

A public private partnership to fund upgrades and the greening of the central heating and cooling system at the University of Maryland’s main College Park campus is slated to arrive next week in the primary market. Conduit issuer Maryland Economic Development Corp. is set to price $345.5 million of green revenue bonds for the NextGen

Gov. J.B. Pritzker on has signed Illinois’ $53.1 billion fiscal year 2025 budget, which includes $198 million for the state’s rainy day fund and $182 million for the migrant crisis as well as creating a Department of Early Childhood and an innovation center at the University of Illinois-Springfield and funding the new state-based insurance marketplace.

Municipals saw losses but outperformed a U.S. Treasury selloff sparked by better-than-expected jobs data while a much smaller primary slate awaits investors ahead of the June Federal Open Market Committee meeting. The non-farm payrolls data further raises concerns over the timing of the Central Bank’s rate cutting schedule. “This blockbuster NFP makes it harder for

The shortage of qualified accountants has affected nearly every organization in both the public and private sector. And it’s definitely not helping a public finance sector that has long struggled to supply audited financial information in a timely manner. “In terms of audit findings, we haven’t seen an uptick in incorrect audits, though we will

Municipals were firmer Thursday as the primary market slowed and muni mutual fund inflows returned. U.S. Treasury yields were little changed and equities ended mixed. Triple-A yields fell another three to eight basis points, depending on the scale. The two-year muni-to-Treasury ratio Thursday was at 67%, the three-year at 67%, the five-year at 69%, the

Kentucky officials are still struggling with how to handle a troubled internet network project nine years after bonds to fund it were sold. Analysts say the KentuckyWired project has lessons on how public-private partnerships should be structured. The political wrangling in-state stands in contrast to rating agencies, who since September have issued the bonds an