March 11, 2010 - State and local governments amassed their biggest-ever debt burden during the fourth quarter, meeting demand from retail buyers and a broadened investor base driven by federal stimulus programs.
March 11, 2010 - Two groups gathered in the San Francisco Bay Area this week to discuss municipal bonds, public budgets and interest rate swaps.
March 11, 2010 - New broker-dealer Pierpont brings together a trio that has worked on and off together for the better part of three decades.
March 11, 2010 - Most of The Bond Buyers weekly yield indexes declined slightly, as some firmness continued to permeate a mostly unchanged municipal market.
March 11, 2010 - A high-level Department of Transportation official told lawmakers that the Obama administration will support ambitious local initiatives for large-scale projects, such as a 12-line transit project in Los Angeles.
March 11, 2010 - FDIC-assisted deals, attractive valuations, improving economy provide a potential windfall for holders of equity.
March 11, 2010 - Tarp warrants could spawn a new source of funding for banks. But it may be years before this becomes a regular font of capital.
March 11, 2010 - Junk-rated companies are finding it easier and cheaper to raise money in the bond market and rely less on bank loans.
March 4, 2010 - After a legislative kerfuffle that caused a one-week delay, California is on track to return to the bond market with a $2 billion general obligation bond deal.
March 4, 2010 - State and local governments are getting very little help from earnings on their investments at the precise time they need it most.
March 4, 2010 - The House approved a revised jobs bill that would allow issuers selling four types of tax-credit bonds to receive a direct Build America Bond-style subsidy payment from the federal government at a far higher rate than was proposed in the Senate version of the bill.
March 4, 2010 - The District of Columbia on Tuesday expects to issue $711.2 million of income-tax secured revenue bonds, including $696 million of refunding bonds that will reduce outstanding debt to keep the city under its 12% debt-to-expenditures cap.
March 4, 2010 - The Bond Buyers weekly yield indexes declined this week, as the tax-exempt market firmed slightly in each of the weeks sessions.
March 4, 2010 - For all the bullishness over tech M&A, no one seems ready to proclaim the market fully open, nor does anyone predict another banner year like 2007, when $193 billion of tech transactions were completed.
March 4, 2010 - More bankrupt companies are considering junk bonds to finance their exits, but while high-yield issues provide more flexibility and other advantages for debt-laden issuers, they are not a panacea and arent applicable to all businesses, market participants say.