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Municipal Bond Credit Report: Pushback against the use of environmental, social, and governance scores in public finance ratings is gaining steam in Republican-controlled states, where elected officials are targeting S&P…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Moody’s Investors Service raised Louisiana’s general obligation bonds and issuer credit rating to Aa2 from Aa3 Wednesday, citing significant progress the state has made restoring its…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: A nonprofit Texas-based retirement community operator filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday to deal with its troubled debt and sell its assets… Link to Story

Municipal Bond Credit Report: The number of people receiving unemployment benefits fell in early May to the lowest point in more than 50 years, adding to signs the U.S. labor…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Rapidly rising mortgage rates and record home prices are cooling the U.S. housing market, as April sales dropped for the third straight month and fell to…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: The global economy is in danger of entering a period of so-called stagflation, or high inflation and weak growth, policy makers and corporate leaders say, which…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Illinois’ rosier near-term fiscal landscape and state bond rating momentum helped lift the ratings of public transit agencies and the state’s public universities and more than…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Illinois-based Advocate Aurora Health and North Carolina-based Atrium Health plan to merge, which would create the fifth largest not-for-profit health system by revenues nationally… Link to…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Ohio-based ProMedica Health System lost one of its investment-grade ratings and remains at risk of losing its other two as the COVID-19 pandemic’s wounds run deep,…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Fitch Ratings is maintaining its negative rating watch on the Reedy Creek Improvement District, Florida’s combined utility system revenue bonds… Link to Story

Municipal Bond Credit Report: U.S. inflation remained close to its highest annual rate in four decades last month, declining only slightly to 8.3% with signs the economy continued to face…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: State and local government retirement funds started the year with their worst quarterly returns since the beginning of the pandemic. Things have only gone downhill since……