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Municipal Bond Credit Report: Mortgage Rates Surge to Highest Since 2018
Municipal Bond Credit Report: The average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate loan jumped to 4.67%, mortgage-finance giant Freddie Mac said Thursday, marking the weekly figure’s highest reading since December 2018……
Municipal Bond Credit Report: U.S. Inflation Rises to 40-Year Peak in February by Fed’s Preferred Measure
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Inflation reached a new 40-year peak in February, according to the Federal Reserve’s preferred gauge, buoyed in part by a surge in oil prices related to…
Municipal Bond Credit Report: U.S. Consumer Spending Growth Slowed in February to 0.2%
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Americans increased their spending at a cooler pace in February, as the Omicron surge of Covid-19 eased but inflation remained high amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine……
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Hospital Deal Gone Bust Puts Real-Estate Firm in Spotlight
Municipal Bond Credit Report: A group of investors bought this small city’s only hospital in late 2019. To pay for the deal, its buildings and land were sold to one…
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Judge clears way for vote on Oklahoma hospital’s bankruptcy exit plan
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Bondholders will vote on a Chapter 9 bankruptcy exit plan for a rural Oklahoma hospital authority after a federal judge on Wednesday approved a key document…
Municipal Bond Credit Report: N.Y. pension funds applaud SEC plan on corporate climate disclosure
Municipal Bond Credit Report: New York’s top financial stewards have praised the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed rule to require companies to disclose climate-related financial risk… Link to Story
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Powell Says Fed Will Consider More-Aggressive Interest-Rate Increases to Reduce Inflation
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank was prepared to raise interest rates in half-percentage-point steps and high enough to deliberately slow the economy…
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Gas Prices Shoot Up at Fastest Rate on Record
Municipal Bond Credit Report: As summer driving season approaches, average prices for regular gasoline have been at record highs the past two weeks after going up for 11 straight weeks.…
Municipal Bond Credit Report: U.S. Jobless Claims Fall in Tight Labor Market
Municipal Bond Credit Report: New applications for unemployment benefits in the U.S. fell last week to historic lows as employers held on to their workers in the midst of a…
Municipal Bond Credit Report: SEC charges Texas school district and former CFO with fraud
Municipal Bond Credit Report: The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Crosby Independent School District in Texas and its former chief financial officer Carla Merka with misleading investors in a…
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Two years after COVID emptied offices, New York City faces a hazy future
Municipal Bond Credit Report: News about the “novel coronavirus” was intensifying in March 2020. The World Health Organization declared a pandemic March 11. The NBA and NHL suspended their seasons…
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Corruption’s murky toll on Chicago and Illinois finances
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Political corruption taints the reputations of Chicago and Illinois and may influence decisions by businesses and voters at the polls, but it’s harder to measure the…
About FIRVA Capital Management
We sell Municipal and Corporate issuer credit risk research. We also manage two partner seeded private funds for information purposes using our research; a liquidity fund and a multi-asset fund.
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- Municipal Credit Risk Research
- Corporate Credit Risk Research
- Advisory and Consulting Services
- Fixed Income Workstation
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