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S&P Credit FAQ: What The Latest COVID-19 Economic Relief Bill Means For U.S. Public K-12 Schools
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Study Examines How Clean Air Act Affects Municipal Bond Market.
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How Biden’s Stimulus Plan Could Impact Municipal Bonds.
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CUSIP Request Volume Surges in December, Driving Total 2020 Volumes for Corporate and Municipal Securities Above 2019 Totals.
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Struggling Local Governments May Get Help From the Private Sector.
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Treasury Nominee Voices Support for State and Local Relief Funding.
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Is Economic Rebound Certain for Local and State Governments in 2021?
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Buttigieg Touts Benefits of Advance Refundings in Confirmation Hearing.
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The Best Tax-Free Municipal Bonds For 2021.
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Prospects Brighten for State and Local Aid from Washington.
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Biden Relief Plan Tosses $350 Billion Lifeline to States, Cities.
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American Cities See Their Luck Turn With a Biden Administration.
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Biden Calls for $350 Billion in State and Local Aid as Part of Massive Stimulus.
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BDA Calls on Biden Administration to Support and Embolden Municipal Bonds.
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Higher-Yielding U.S. Muni Bonds Cheer Biden’s State, City Budget Relief.
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S&P: Updated Activity Estimates For U.S. Transportation Infrastructure Show Public Transit And Airport Operators Still Face A Long Recovery
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S&P Outlook For U.S. Not-For-Profit Transportation Infrastructure: Light At Tunnel’s End – But How Long Is The Tunnel?
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S&P Outlook For U.S. Public Power And Electric Cooperative Utilities: Ratings Should Remain Resilient
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Fitch: Downgrades Exceed Upgrades, U.S. Public Finance 2020 Annual Ratings Update Finds
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Fitch Ratings Updates U.S. Housing Finance Agencies General Obligation (GO) Rating Criteria.
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Fitch Ratings Assigns ESG Relevance Scores for USPF Housing Credits.
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22 Nonprofit Hospitals Hit With Credit Downgrades Last Year, Fitch Says.
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S&P Outlook For U.S. Not-For-Profit Acute Health Care: Navigating The Bumps While Getting Back On Track
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Municipal Bond Market Starts the Year Strongly.
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MacKay Municipal Managers Announces Top Five Municipal Market Insights For 2021.
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Covid-19 Pandemic Drives Municipal Borrowing to 10-Year High.
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‘Extraordinarily Expensive’: Muni-Bond Valuations at Record High
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How To Navigate The Rocky Municipal Bond Market.
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2021 Municipal Outlook: Reasons For Optimism
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U.S. Muni Market Ignores Stimulus-Provoked Rise In Treasury Yields.
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Bond Market Outlook: Yields Likely to Stay Low in 2021
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Guide To Tax-Exempt Bond Funds: 31 Best Buys
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GFOA Analysis of Latest Coronavirus Relief Legislation.
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S&P ESG Pulse: Reimagining Accounting To Measure Climate Change Risks
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Can Parking Benefit Districts Step In as Revenue Sources Dry Up? – Nossaman
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Fitch: Federal Stimulus Won’t Offset Higher Ed Budget Pressures.
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S&P Outlook For Charter Schools: State Revenue Weakness May Test Credit Quality
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Fitch Ratings 2021 Outlook Compendium: U.S. Public Finance
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The Public Finance Outlook for 2021 in 10 Themes.
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S&P Outlook For U.S. Local Governments: Revenue Pressures Mount And Choices Get Harder
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S&P Outlook For U.S. States: Symptoms Persist, But A Shot In The Arm Could Lead To Growth
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S&P ‘AAA’ Rated U.S. Counties: Current List
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S&P ‘AAA’ Rated U.S. Municipalities: Current List
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S&P ‘AAA’ Rated U.S. School Districts: Current List
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A Democrat-Run Congress Would Bolster Odds of State, City Aid.
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Breaking Down What to Expect from Municipal Bonds in 2021.
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U.S. Municipal Bond Sales Hit Record $451.2 billion in 2020.
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Municipal Bond Market Starts the Year Strongly.
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Can 2020 Bond-Financed Projects Take Advantage of the fixed 4% Rate in the Pending COVID-19 Legislation? – Nixon Peabody
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Fall 2020 Fiscal Survey of States: NASBO
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2020 State Expenditure Report: NASBO
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How Small Towns Can Ride The Public-Private Partnership Wave.
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USDOT Launches New Regional Infrastructure Accelerators Program.
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Fitch: Large U.S. Western Metros Continue Trend of Slower Recovery
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Munis Set for Seventh Straight Year of Gains Amid Record Supply.
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This Part of the Muni Sector is Surging.
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The Long Strange Trip Of The Muni Market In 2020.
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Where to Find Yield While Limiting Risk in the 2021 Bond Market.
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Fitch Ratings Updates USPF Variable-Rate Demand Obligations and Commercial Paper Criteria.
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Fitch Ratings Updates Criteria for U.S. Public Housing Authority Capital Fund Revenue Bonds.
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Why the Surge in Taxable Municipal Bonds?
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Lowest Muni Bond Yields Aided Covid-19 Recovery.
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SIFMA US Negative Interest Rates Policy Checklist.
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Wall Street Muni Desks End Record Year With New Deal Deep Freeze.
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End Nears for Fed’s Municipal Lending Program.
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7 State and Local Fiscal Lessons from a Year Like No Other.
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Economic Boost From Stimulus Seen as States and Cities’ Best Bet.
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The State of Local Government in the Pandemic Era: Read the Survey Results
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Municipal Budget Crunch Pressures Payrolls. And Direct Federal Stimulus Isn’t Forthcoming.
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Fitch: New Federal Aid to Steady State and Local Budgets
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GFOA: Looking Back at 2020
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SIFMA Expects Long Term Municipal Issuance to Reach $452 Billion in 2021.
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SIFMA US Municipal Issuance Survey 2021.
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Municipal Bonds Aren’t Out of Peril.
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5 Trends to Watch in 2021 Public Finance.
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How Muni Bonds Fared in 2020 and What to Expect in 2021,
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Bond Boom Comes to America’s Colleges and Universities.
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SolarWinds Cybersecurity Exploit: What Water Providers Need to Know and Do – Nossaman
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The ‘Highway Boondoggles’ That the Pandemic Hasn’t Killed.
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The Biggest Names in Municipals Reflect on an Unprecedented Year.
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What a Joe Biden Win Means for Munis and Taxes.
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Cities Save Hotels, Arenas From Bond Defaults After Pandemic Hit.
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The Unpredictable Future of Publicly Funded Stadiums.
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Fed’s Daly Welcomes More Fiscal Aid as Stimulus Deal Nears.
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With No Federal Help Coming, Cities Cling to the Financial Cliff.
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Republicans Bind Virus Aid to Limit on Fed Lending, Risking Bill.
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Mayors Pessimistic About Cities’ Prospects for Post-Covid Rebound.
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The Washington Weekly: Stimulus, Shutdown or Both?
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Republican Bid to End Virus Lending Slows Relief Deal.
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Jerome Powell Sees Fed’s Limits and Punts to Congress.
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California Health Facilities Financing Authority’s $500 million Housing Bond Wins Deal of the Year.
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Fitch Ratings Updates Criteria for U.S. Public Finance Prerefunded Bonds.
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Fitch: US State Revolving Fund and Municipal Finance Pool Sector Performance Remains Strong
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Fitch Ratings Updates Completion Risk Criteria.
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Fitch Ratings Updates Coronavirus Scenarios for U.S. State and Local Governments.
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Fitch: Vaccine Mitigates Downside for US Public Finance; Risks Remain
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Fitch: Employment Growth Slowing for U.S. States
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S&P: U.S. Charter School Medians In 2019 Were Stable Pre-COVID-19, But Disparity Grows Between Higher And Lower Rated Schools
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S&P U.S. Not-For-Profit Health Care Rating Actions, November 2020.
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Municipal Volumes Cut in Half from October to November.
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Moody’s Talks – Outlook Connections Podcast Series
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Migration to Low Tax States and the Muni Market.
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What Investors Should Expect from 2021’s Municipal Bond Market.
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2020 Takeaway For Muni Market Is Resilience: Kazatsky (Radio)
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S&P U.S. Public Finance 2020 Year In Review: One Like No Other
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S&P U.S. State Ratings And Outlooks: Current List
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S&P History Of U.S. State Ratings.
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Fitch: Coronavirus Fallout to Worsen for U.S. Higher Education in 2021
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Fitch: Strong Bal. Sheets, Fed Subsidies May Cushion Housing in 2021
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S&P: The Opioid Crisis Is A Credit Risk For U.S. Local Governments, Especially After COVID-19
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S&P Medicaid Diagnosis: U.S. States’ Growing Caseloads Come With Rising Costs
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Fitch: U.S. NFP Hospitals Brace for a Tough 2021
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Fitch: Stable Outlook for U.S. NFP Life Plan Communities in 2021
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Fitch: U.S. Water & Sewer Utilities Stable in 2021
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Fitch: Operating and Financial Resilience Key for U.S. Public Power in 2021
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The Emergency Funding Ideas That Could Help Keep Transit Alive.
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Wisconsin Public Finance Authority – More Scandal.
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Rent-A-Muni Issuer Scored Market Access for Bond Now at 11 Cents.
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Nashville Stadium Bond Deal Tests Future of Spectator Sports.
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How To Avoid Stepping Into Hazardous Municipal Bond Issues Caused By Covid-19.
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Municipal Funds-Of-Funds Are Not A Slam Dunk.
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Wall Street Muni Underwriters Poised for Record Year in 2020.
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Wall Street Diverges on Muni Sales as Citi Sees $550 Billion.
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PFN Releases Advance Refunding Myth Buster: NABL
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NSAA Requests Single Audit Extension.
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PRAC Releases Agile Toolkit.
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In Blue States and Red, Pandemic Upends Public Services and Jobs.
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Nobody Is Going to Conventions. Convention Centers Are Growing Anyway.
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A Framework for Analyzing Municipal Climate Risk.
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State of Local Government Survey of U.S. Cities and Counties Reveals Trends Around COVID, Remote Work, and Digital Infrastructure Investments.
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Muni Bonds Battered by Covid Rally With Market Eyeing Recovery.
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3 Reasons Why The Senate Race Matters For Municipal Bonds.
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Fitch: U.S. States’ Path to Economic Recovery (Declining Fiscal Support, Slowing Employment Revival and Resurging Coronavirus Expected to Extend Road to Recovery)
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Powell Questions Treasury Actions: Discussion of Stimulus Resurfaces
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States and Cities Plead for More Time to Spend Federal Covid Aid.
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Powell, Mnuchin Embrace New Stimulus After Fed Lending Rift.
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S&P U.S. Not-For-Profit Private College And University Fiscal 2019 Median Ratios: Changing Landscape Leads To Weakening Credit Measures
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S&P: U.S. Public College And University Fiscal 2019 Median Ratios Remain Generally Stable Although Operating Stress Looms
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Fitch: CDC Coronavirus Vaccine Priorities Positive for Senior Living
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Fitch: New No Cruise Order Would Be Neutral for US Cruise Lines, Ports
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Here’s What the Water Sector Wants from Congress and President-Elect Biden.
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Federal Relief Proposals Aren’t Enough to Thwart Some of the Worst Transit Cuts.
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The MTA Could Be the Last to Tap the Fed’s Muni Facility. Wall Street Watchers Fret Its End.
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From Service Cuts to Budget Shortfalls: What Is in Store for American Transportation Agencies?
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‘Existential Peril’: Mass Transit Faces Huge Service Cuts Across U.S.
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Fitch: Coronavirus Muddies 2021 Outlook for U.S. Transportation Infrastructure
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The Fastest-Growing Fixed Income Sector: Taxable Muni Bonds
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Demand for Taxable Munis To Continue in 2021: Kazatsky (Radio)
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Why Taxable Municipal Bonds Are Booming and How to Invest in Them.
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BAB: Taxable Munis Still Offering Value
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Future Returns: Insured Munis Offer Stable Income and Peace of Mind
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Premium Bonds As a Cushion for Rising Rates.
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S&P: Approval Of Nontraditional Revenues Dominates Recent Ballot Measures For U.S. State And Local Governments.
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Fitch Ratings Releases U.S. Public Finance Transition and Default Study.
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Fitch Ratings Updates Criteria for US NFP Hospitals & Health Systems and State Revolving Funds.
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S&P: COVID-19 Activity In U.S. Public Finance
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GFOA Elected Official’s Guides – Understanding the Fiscal Health of Your Community
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S&P: The Post-Election Landscape For U.S. Public Finance
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U.S. 2020 Election Investment Pulse: Neutral To Positive For Municipals.
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Fitch: US Election Largely Credit-Neutral to Healthcare Sectors
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S&P: The Post-Election Landscape For U.S. Public Finance
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Don’t Discount States for U.S. Climate Progress.
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What Cities Need From the Biden Administration in the First 100 Days.
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Congress is Forcing Cities to Defund the Police, Firefighters, and Schools.
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Cities Still Need Their Lifeline From the Fed.
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Congress Splits Along Party Lines Over Fed-Facilities Move.
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Treasury-Fed Clash Exposes Broader Policy Stress.
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Without Fed’s MLF, Stakeholders Warn of a Fragile Future for Munis.
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Credit, Muni Markets Shrug Off Treasury Threat to End Fed Programs.
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Investors Say Fed ‘Backstops’ Removed by Treasury Were Little Used but Lifted Confidence.
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Muni Market Faces Test With Cut to Fed Lifeline That Ended Crash.
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Fed to Return Lending-Backstop Funds to Treasury as Requested.
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This Fed-Treasury Public Fight Has No Winners.
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Treasury Seeks Unused Funds From Fed in Clash With Central Bank.
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The Treasury Is Asking the Fed for Its Money Back. Here’s What It Means for Markets.
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Biden Needs to Fix Mnuchin’s Big Mistake.
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Steven Mnuchin’s Finest Hour.
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Letter from Chair Powell to Secretary Mnuchin Regarding Emergency Lending Facilities.
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Mnuchin-Powell Split Shows Rare Discord as Economy Struggles.
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Municipal CUSIP Request Volume Continues to Surge.
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Agencies Provide Temporary Relief to Community Banking Organizations.
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Stakeholders Expect Next DOT Secretary to Have a Muni Edge.
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Public Infrastructure/Private Service Model For 21st Century Broadband Proves Worthy.
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EPA Receives 67 New Requests for WIFIA Financing.
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Ready or Not, 5G is Coming: Governments Need To Be Prepared Today.
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Still See Continual Inflows Into Muni Market: Kazatsky (Radio)
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HY Munis Worth A Look Vs. HY Corporate Credit Right Now.
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Municipal Bonds: The State Of The States
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Amid a Spate of New Issuance, Municipal Bonds Stand Strong.
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More High-Yield Muni Borrowers Are Defaulting but Investors Still Want In.
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The Mnuchin-Powell Dream Team Faces Its Biggest Test.
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What Does President-Elect Joe Biden’s Presidency Mean for Municipal Debt Markets?
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Municipal Bonds Faring Well Despite Election/Pandemic Uncertainty.
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Public Finance Sector Optimistic about Biden Presidency.
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What Does President-elect Joe Biden’s Presidency Mean for Municipal Debt Markets?
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Five Ways The Biden Administration May Affect U.S. Transportation.
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States and Localities Shouldn’t Count on More Federal Aid.
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Fed’s Mester Says All Emergency Lending Facilities Should Be Extended.
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Federal Reserve’s Emergency Loan Programs at Center of Political Fight.
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