The last of the week’s big municipal bond deals came to market on Thursday as municipals wavered in mid-session trade.
Primary market
Citigroup priced the Los Angeles Community College District’s $350 million tax-exempts consisting of Series J 2008 election general obligation bonds and Series A-1 2016 election GOs.
The $300 million of Series J GOs were priced to yield from 1% with a 2% coupon in 2018 to 2.90% with a 4% coupon in 2039; a 2041 maturity was priced as 4s to yield 2.94%.
The $50 million of Series A-1 GOs were priced as 2s to yield 1% in a 2018 bullet maturity.
The deal is rated Aa1 and MIG1 by Moody’s Investors Service and AA-plus by S&P Global Ratings.
Since 2007, the Los Angeles CCD has sold about $5.9 billion of debt with the most issuance occurring in 2014 when it sold $1.8 billion. The district did not come to market in 2011 or 2012.
JPMorgan Securities received the written award on the San Diego Association of Governments' $194.14 million of Series 2017A toll revenue first senior lien bonds for the South Bay Expressway.
The issue was priced to yield from 1.02% with a 4% coupon in 2018 to 2.69% with a 5% coupon in 2038; a 2042 maturity was priced as 5s to yield 2.72%.
The deal is rated A by S&P and A-minus by Fitch Ratings.
Bond Buyer reports 30-day visible supply
The Bond Buyer`s 30-day visible supply calendar decreased $2.84 billion to $6.17 billion on Thursday. The total is comprised of $3.01 billion of competitive sales and $3.16 billion of negotiated deals.
Secondary market
The yield on the 10-year benchmark muni general obligation rose as much as one basis point from 1.91% on Wednesday, while the 30-year GO yield gained as much as two basis points from 2.58%, according to a read of Municipal Market Data`s triple-A scale.
U.S. Treasuries were narrowly mixed on Thursday. The yield on the two-year Treasury was unchanged from 1.64%, the 10-year Treasury yield was flat from 2.32% and the yield on the 30-year Treasury increased to 2.81% from 2.78%.
On Wednesday, the 10-year muni-to-Treasury ratio was calculated at 82.3% compared with 83.3% on Tuesday, while the 30-year muni-to-Treasury ratio stood at 92.7% versus 93.9%, according to MMD.
AP-MBIS 10-year muni at 2.227%, 30-year at 2.745%
The Associated Press-MBIS municipal non-callable 5% GO benchmark scale was mixed at midday.
The 10-year muni benchmark yield fell to 2.227% on Thursday from the final read of 2.231% on Wednesday, according to
The AP-MBIS benchmark index is a yield curve built on market data aggregated from MBIS member firms and is updated hourly on the
MSRB: Previous session`s activity
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board reported 38,112 trades on Wednesday on volume of $13.33 billion.
Tax-exempt money market funds see inflows
Tax-exempt money market funds experienced inflows of $1.03 billion, raising total net assets to $129.24 billion in the week ended Nov. 6, according to The Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.
This followed an outflow of $133.1 million to $128.20 billion in the previous week.
The average, seven-day simple yield for the 199 weekly reporting tax-exempt funds slipped to 0.47% from 0.48% the previous week.
The total net assets of the 833 weekly reporting taxable money funds increased $553.9 million to $2.581 trillion in the week ended Nov. 7, after an outflow of $9.12 billion to $2.580 trillion the week before.
The average, seven-day simple yield for the taxable money funds was unchanged at 0.70% from the prior week.
Overall, the combined total net assets of the 1,032 weekly reporting money funds increased $1.59 billion to $2.710 trillion in the week ended Nov. 7, after inflows of $9.25 billion to $2.708 trillion in the prior week.
Data appearing in this article from Municipal Bond Information Services, including the AP-MBIS municipal bond index, is available on the Bond Buyer Data Workstation.