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Focuses on retail demand for bonds in Southeast States. Individual investors' efforts to seek out the highest possible yields from both new and secondary offerings; Scarcity of high-yielding paper in Maryland; Strong demand for double-A and triple-A paper due between 2014 and 2019.

Presents news items concerning the bond market in the Southeastern States. Includes Florida's bid to expand its commercial paper loan pool; Tennessee's circulation of a request for proposals for the creation of a commercial paper program to replace its general obligation note program; Bond referendum for the renovation of three high schools in Kanawha County, West Virginia.

Reports on bond market developments in the Southeastern region of the United States as of September 4, 1997. Pricing for an $8 million Bossier Parish, Louisiana, School Board general obligation bond offering on September 4; Maximum state income tax in Mississippi on out-of-state bonds; High concentration of insured paper in Florida prompting preference for uninsured or nonrated paper.

Assesses how local mutual funds view bonds in the Southeast. Debt burden in the region; Prospects for bond deals; Top funds in the region; Bond ratings; Economic conditions in the region.

Reports on the condition for municipal bond investing in southeastern states. Coupon rate, maturity, credit rating and yield of the Clayton County Georgia Housing Authority multifamily revenue bonds; Effect on yields of a generous supply of new and secondary bonds in Florida; A.G. Edward & Sons Inc.'s deals in Florida.

Reports on trends in the trading of bonds in the Southeast's retail market. Types of retail investors; Demand for short-term bonds; Retail options in the secondary market; Preferred bonds; Pricing of bonds.

Reports that investors in the Southeast region are being pushed to accept bonds with yields of below 5%. Optimism that bull market in bonds will strengthen; Difficulty for investors to pick up high-yielding paper on their own; Stampede among retail investors into all areas of the municipal market.

Focuses on developments related to retail investing in the Southeastern States as of June 11, 1998. Complaints over limitations on retail supply; Problems with specificity of retail inquiries; Demand for yield paper.

Focuses on the trend among retail investors in the Southeastern States to reduce municipal bond market investments. Impact on clients' tendency to shorten their maturity dates; Advantages seen in putting cash to taxable market options.

Reports on developments in bonds in the Southeast U.S. as of May 27, 2004. Standard & Poor's downgrading of Sun Coast Hospital of outstanding debt issued by the city of Largo, Florida to BB from BB-plus; Moody's Investors Service's affirmation of its A3 rating on outstanding variable-rate bonds sold for the Pennington Medical Foundation.

Predicts changes in the ties between United States federal agencies, the Federal National Mortgage Association and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., and small Southern boutiques that underwrite the agencies' smaller debt offerings. Boutiques' focus on small and medium-term agency deals; Response to the agencies' establishment of benchmark note programs as an alternative to Treasuries.

The article presents information that the issuance of municipal bond in the Southeastern states of the U.S. has been increased by 57 percent to 34 billion U.S. dollars in the first half of 2012. According to Thomson Reuters Corp., refunding of bonds has been increased by 106 percent to 16.5 billion U.S. dollars during the period January-June 2012. It informs that Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee has issued more new-money bonds than they have refunded as depicted from statistical reports.

Reports on trends in the municipal bond market in the Southern States as of February 4, 1998. Strong market showing of revenue refunding by the Industrial Development Authority of Fairfax County, Virginia; Retail interest in municipal bonds; Difficulty of attracting new retail business to the primary market due to general shortage of high-yield paper and the tight underwriting and quality spreads.

Focuses on airport bond issuance deals in the Southeastern States. Miami-Dade County, Florida's release of a commercial paper program for Miami International Airport in Florida; Plans for a $445 million bond issue for the fifth Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport runway.

A chart is presented that lists bonds issued by several agencies in the Southwest States of the U.S.

Reports developments on the bond market in the Southern States. Passage of bills offering tax breaks to investors including municipal bond buyers and students returning to school at the Florida House; Bills passed by the General Assembly that would create a new authority with the power to issue bonds, give corporations tax breaks, limit jury awards and create a state accounting office in Georgia; View of state lawmakers over passage of a budget for fiscal 2006 in Mississippi.

Presents information on bonds issued by government agencies in Southwestern States as of May 16, 2000. School bond issue by Little Rock School Board in Arkansas; Moody's Investors Service's rating for the Denver International Airport revenue bonds; Dallas Area Rapid Transit's plan for a referendum on bonds; Other related news items.

Analyzes trends in the Southeast municipal bond market in 1999. Overall issuance; Comparison with the market's performance in the previous year; Total value of new-money bonds and refunding deals issued by the region; Major issuers.

Reports on bond issues in the Southern States as of July 2, 1998. Issuance of South Carolina Jobs Economic Development Authority's hospital revenue bonds; Hanifen Imhoff Inc.'s acquisition of Winter Haven, Florida's insured utility system revenue offering; A.G. Edwards' purchase of Florida Housing Finance Corp.'s revenue offering for the Kendall County Apartments project.

Reports on municipal bond market developments in the Southeastern States as of March 26, 1998. Bond offering launched by Shelby County, Alabama's Board of Education worth $64 million; Difficulties faced by retail brokers in finding high-yielding bonds for customers in Florida; Municipal market data yield curves as of March 24.

Reports on the popularity of hospital and school short-term bonds among retail investors in the Southeastern United States. Retail interest in the bonds issued by the Health Facilities Authority of Jefferson County, Kentucky and the Metropolitan Sewer District of Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky; Municipal market data yield curves as of March 10, 1998.

Reports on the developments from the municipal bond market in Southeastern United States, compiled as of August 5, 1997. Bonds in demand; Yield curve for the Florida market; Yield curves for the municipal market; Southeast players enjoying steady demand.

Corrections to articles in previous issues including the November 5, 2010 story which incorrectly described the relationship between taxable and tax-exempt municipal bond and the November 4, 2010 story on Southeast U.S. election results are presented.

A chart is presented which shows the invisible supply or bonds in the Southern states including Florida, Georgia and Kentucky.

Reports on the plan of South Carolina, Wake County, North Carolina and the Nashville Davidson County Metropolitan Government to sell a multi-million dollar government obligation debt. Offering of new-money and refunding bonds by all the issuers; Financial adviser of the deal; Use of the proceeds for projects at the University of South Carolina and Clemson University.

Presents data concerning the bond market in southeastern U.S. as of April 14, 2005. Issuer and purpose; Amount; Approval status; Underwriter choice; Expected sale date.

Reports on Wachovia Corp.'s plans to offer a payroll processing service for Paychex Inc. to small businesses in the Southeast. Features of the service.

Reports on developments concerning the municipal bond market in the Southeastern States, as of May 18, 2000. Moody's Investors Service's affirmation of its Baa1 rating and positive outlook on University Community Hospital in Tampa, Florida; South Carolina Housing Finance and Economic Development Authority's sale of mortgage revenue bonds to provide funding for the state's single-family mortgage program.

Reports on developments concerning government bonds in the Southeastern United States as of February 3, 2000. Includes the Florida State Division of Bond Finance's preparation for the sale of a pair of competitive bond issues; Southern Municipal Finance Society of Georgia's presentation of its R. Neill Conkling Award for Excellence to Jere Dodd.

Reports on developments related to the municipal bond market in the Southeastern States as of January 13, 2000. Includes Jacksonville, Florida-based Jacksonville Electric Authority's planned bond issues; Georgia Financing and Investment Commission's plan to sell the state's remaining general obligation debt.

Presents news and information concerning the bond market in Southeastern States of the United States as of August 20, 1998. Includes Florida; Louisiana; North Carolina.

Reports on developments concerning the bond market in the Southern States as of May 28, 1998. Alabama's retail investors' limited access to tax-free bonds due to lack of supply; Increase in the popularity of the health system revenue bonds for Catholic Health East insured by Ambac Assurance Corp.

Reports on the sales performance of general obligation bonds of three municipalities in the Southeastern States. Includes Louisiana and Birmingham, Alabama; Interest of Alabama retail bond buyers in general obligation bonds; Status of retail demand in Hallandale, Florida.

The article reports on the municipal bond issuance in Southern States which fell during the first half of 2008. Debt sales in the region were down 19.4% on sales volume of $36.4 billion compared to $45.2 billion in comparison with the $45.2 billion of debt sold during the first half of 2007. The decrease in sales volume was caused by debt refinancings prompted by the meltdown of the auction-rate securities market and bond insurer downgrades.

Reports on the possible impact of the slowing economy on the sports facilities bond market in the Southeast. Discussions about public financing of sports facilities in North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, and Florida; Challenges facing the bond market in the area.

Presents news updates related to the Southern States bond market as of March 17, 1998. Support of Colorado and Texas in the deregulation of electric utilities; Bond offering to be made by the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority; Goldman Sachs & Co. as the winning bidder for New Mexico's severance tax-backed refunding bonds.

Examines the underwriting of bank-qualified bonds at virtually no spread in the Southeast. Banks' bids for the business; Characteristics of issuance under a master bond resolution; Approaches of banks in dealing with bank-qualified deals.

The article reports that municipal bond issuers in Southeast of the U.S. sold 21.78 billion dollars of debt in the first six months of 2014. It discusses that Georgia was the only state in the Southeast on the plus side with 3.08 billion dollars in sales, a 4.7 percent increase from 2013. It also mentions that taxable bond issuance saw major declines of any category to 1.28 billion dollars from 7.06 billion dollars.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses the cover story on the banking market in Southeast state.

A chart is presented depicting the invisible supply of bonds in the Southeastern States including Florida, Georgia and Kentucky.

Presents a chart depicting the plain and insured general obligation bond yield curves in the Southeastern states of the U.S. for November 1, 2005.

Presents a chart depicting bond supplies in the Southeastern states of the U.S.

The article presents information on issues related to state bonds in the Southeastern States. Five public employees were named in a 34-count federal grand jury indictment involving reconstruction and expansion of the $4 billion Jefferson County, Alabama sewer system, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama. Two major transportation projects aimed at relieving severe congestion in Florida--a $1.46 billion light-rail project in Hillsborough County and an $842.5 million heavy-rail extension project in Miami-Dade County--were not funded in the U.S. Department of Transportation's 2006 budget sent to the U.S. Congress.

Reports on developments related to the bond market in the Southern States as of March 15, 2001. Holding of a referendum in Alpharetta, Georgia to ask voters to approve or not bonds to buy land for parks; High ratings garnered by Louisville, Kentucky's Water Works Board for its planned sale of water system revenue bonds; Putnam County, West Virginia school board's agreement to place a bond issue before voters.

Presents a news roundup pertaining to the municipal bond market in the Southeastern States, as of January 25, 2001. Recruitment of Steve Shiver as county manager of Miami-Dade County in Florida; Standard & Poor's lowering of its ratings on debt issued by the Cobb County Kennestone Hospital Authority for its Wellstar Health Systems Inc. in Georgia.

Presents news briefs pertaining to municipal bonds and public finance in the Southern States as of January 18, 2001. Plumbers and Pipe Fitters National Pension Fund's decision to withdraw its request to create a community development district; Rating assigned by Moody's Investors Service to the Georgia Tech Foundation's Series 2001A revenue bonds.

Presents news briefs pertaining to municipal bonds and public finance in the Southern States as of December 28, 2000. Hillsborough County Commission, Florida's decision to hire Bryant, Miller and Olive and Hunter & Thomas as bond counsel; Sevier County Public Building Authority, Tennessee's plan to sell bonds.

Presents news items concerning the bond market in southeastern United States as of June 1, 2000. Downgraded debt rating received by Alexander City Special Care Facilities Finance Authority in Alabama on bonds for Russell Hospital Corp.; Sarasota County, Florida's decision to sell sales tax revenue bonds; Virginia-based FairFax County Water Authority's sale of water revenue bonds.

Focuses on developments related to the municipal bond market in the Southeastern States, current as of March 16, 2000. Includes rating agencies' assessment of the Miami-Dade County airport debt in Florida; Airport revolving fund proposal in Virginia.

Reports on developments related to municipal bonds in the Southeast region of the United States as of January 20, 2000. Viability of offering government securities in Virginia due to the state's economic condition; Resignation of Jeff Reynolds from his position as executive director of the Tennessee Housing Development Agency.