The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) today released municipal market statistics for the third quarter of 2016, showing par amount traded totaled $837.9 billion in 2016:Q3, up 52.1 percent from the $551.0 billion traded in 2015:Q3. Total par traded was the highest since the $825.4 billion traded in 2013:Q2 when volume reached $838.3 billion. The MSRB’s quarterly statistical summaries include aggregate market information for different types of municipal issues and trades, and the number of interest rate resets for variable rate demand obligations and auction rate securities.