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Fiona Ma has been pushing the state's bond team to explore refundings and to sell new money bonds while rates remain low.
May 2 -
Gary Community School Corp. in Indiana wants to test its access to the bond market with a $5 million bond refunding.
April 24 -
The audit concluded a year and one day after the sports authority received a letter dated April 4, 2018, informing it that the tax-exempt status of the bonds was being examined.
April 22 -
Midwest Fertilizer Co. announced Monday it has settled with the IRS Office of Appeals an audit that originally disqualified the tax-exempt status of $1.259 billion of refunding bonds that will be used to help finance a fertilizer plant in Posey County, Indiana.
March 19 -
Reps. Steve Stivers, R-Ohio and Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., are also drumming up support for the muni market's role in infrastructure finance.
March 13 -
The region's 2018 new money bond sales were up 2% year-over-year, but refundings fell 57%.
February 28 -
Refunding volume in the Midwest was down 57% in 2018, while new money deals rose just 1.8%, leaving the region down more than 28%.
February 26 -
Note issuance declined in 2018 as a result of tax reform, rate fears, and ongoing fiscal austerity sparked by state and local revenue growth.
February 25 -
Richard Neal, D-Mass., raised optimism among state treasurers that advance refunding of municipal bonds may be part of "a combination of funding sources."
February 12 -
A top House Democrat warned the Trump administration not to engage in debt limit brinksmanship that could halt trading in state and local government securities.
January 30