The coronavirus pandemic, budgetary strains, civil unrest, and stay-at-home mandates have dramatically altered the landscape for our nation’s cities. This multi-platform series from The Bond Buyer examines this in four parts, each segment focusing on a different aspect of how life in and the finances of America’s cities could be altered.
While Friday's muni session was muted, the damage of a volatile UST market, paired with low new-issue supply and year-end positioning, has weighed on the asset class in December.
A decline in debt service coverage drove S&P's four-notch downgrade for Salinas, California, sewer revenue debt, which it placed on CreditWatch negative.
The new Congress will have a full plate including deciding the fate of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and Internal Revenue Service funding in a legislature that's already showing cracks of disagreement.
Kotek has spent the past month working on a very busy agenda involving housing, fires, transportation and construction labor agreements.
High-yield funds saw outflows of $413.6 million compared to the previous week's outflows of $71 million.
Six Texas cities sued the state comptroller over a rule that altered where sales taxes would be collected on certain online purchases.
