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Byline: Kevin Oklobzija Prudent fiscal management has earned the city of Rochester the highest short-term bond rating from S&P Global Ratings. In issuing the SP 1+n rating, S&P Global Ratings [...]

Byline: Kevin Oklobzija Standard & Poor's Global Ratings says finances for the city of Rochester reflect a 'stable overall economic profile.' S&P assigned an SP-1+ rating to short-term bond rating [...]

Byline: Christine Albano More municipal supply is set to hit the screens on Wednesday as buyers get ready to vie for volume in a tight market. Hearty demand continued to [...]

Byline: Kyle Glazier WASHINGTON -- Federal financial reforms designed to reduce the less favorable treatment by rating agencies of municipal bonds compared to corporate bonds have resulted in higher ratings, [...]

Byline: Shelly Sigo A Kentucky county and its sole hospital received multi-notch rating downgrades as they struggle in a region hit by the declining coal-mining industry's closures, bankruptcies and job [...]

Byline: Andrew Coen New York's Rockland County was lifted to a single-A-level rating by Moody's Investors Service for the first time in nearly six years after turning a deficit that [...]

Like many localities, the City of Durham, North Carolina, uses debt to provide long-term financing for projects. When it was time, recently, to calculate the amount of debt service Durham [...]

Treasury securities are now in a bear market and these securities are unappealing because they have very low yields and the government is issuing huge amounts of debt to fund record budget deficits. Municipal bond (munis) markets have yields of 4.5 percent while top grade 30-year munis carried double the yields of their Treasury counterparts.

Byline: Shelly Sigo BRADENTON, Fla. -- Kentucky's University of Louisville saw its bond rating lowered amid weak operating performance and a federal investigation into basketball recruiting that could pose a [...]

Byline: Richard Williamson DALLAS -- Investor-owned power utilities in Texas should be able to recover their costs of restoration in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, according to Moody's Investors Service. [...]

Moody's Investors Service said it has upgraded to Aa1 from Aa2 the general obligation rating of the Vermont Municipal Bond Bank's 1988 general resolution debt. Concurrently, Moody's has assigned an [...]

The influence of bond insurance and yield spreads on the municipal bond market is discussed.

Byline: Aaron Weitzman Assured Guaranty Ltd. requested that Moody's Investors Service withdraw the rating on its Assured Guaranty Corp. subsidiary, saying it doesn't reflect a strengthening in the unit's credit. [...]

Byline: Matt M. Johnson The city of Minneapolis has received AAA credit ratings from Fitch Ratings and Standard and Poor's, the highest possible. Rating service Moody's affirmed the city's existing [...]

Byline: Keeley Webster LOS ANGELES -- California has enhanced its ability to borrow money cheaply and nudged its credit rating into high-grade territory amid a period of rising investor clamor [...]

Moody's Investors Service said it has placed under review for possible downgrade the Aaa rating of the state of New Mexico's general obligation bonds, affecting $327 million in outstanding debt. [...]

Byline: Chip Barnett, Aaron Weitzman Municipal bond traders will be analyzing Friday's weaker-than-expected jobs report as Treasury prices turned mixed and stocks opened higher. The market is also gearing up [...]

ATLANTA -- After an upgrade by Standard & Poor's Friday, Tennessee became the ninth state to carry unified triple-A general obligation ratings from the big three credit agencies. Standard & [...]

+++ Dollar amounts represents the amount of bonds outstanding in the issue. Rating changes that result from the purchase of the letters of credit or bond insurance for issues in [...]

Dollar amounts represents the amount of bonds outstanding in the issue. Rating changes that result from the purchase of the letters of credit or bond insurance for issues in the [...]

+++ ISSUER AMOUNT CHANGE BOND (000S) TO FROM NAME COMMENTS Adams-Friendship Area Schools, Wis., general obligation bonds 1,720 Baa1 A Moody's The downgrade reflects increasing debt level due to current [...]

Municipal bonds are one of the most popular ways to shelter income from taxes because the interest they pay is tax-exempt on the federal level. (Some states and cities also [...]

On the evening of Friday, Aug. 5, 2011, Standard & Poor's downgraded the credit rating of U.S. government obligations, citing fiscal policy and debt burden concerns as its primary rationale. [...]

Mutual fund companies trading municipal bonds are listed alphabetically. Information about each company includes dividend yields, total net assets, and performance for 3 of the quarters in 1994.

There are moneymaking ways to stop Uncle Sam from gorging on your profits. TODAY'S NATIONAL CRISIS ISN'T a World War: It's a great, and growing, tax bill. Uncle Sam doesn't [...]

Lynch believes that tax-free municipal bonds will provide investors with the greatest yields because of expected tax increases. He prefers to purchase short-term bonds backed by the federal government. Lynch evaluates several bonds and discusses his analysis of the market.