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Municipal Bond Credit Report: Fitch Ratings returned Chicago’s outlook to stable after an infusion of $1.9 billion in federal COVID-19 pandemic aid and recovering tax collections eased strains that threatened…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Federal Reserve officials are set to wind down their $120 billion-a-month bond-purchase program in November, but questions over how soon inflation pressures will fade are creating…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: U.S. banks are overrun with cash. So they are loading up on debt. The six largest U.S. lenders have issued some $314 billion of bonds so…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: U.S. consumer confidence increased in October following three months of declines, as the wave of Covid-19 cases due to the Delta variant started to ease… Link…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Public colleges and universities will have $3.3 billion of bond authority for construction if Gov. Greg Abbott signs a bill passed in the third special session…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has agreed to give a portion of the water it gets from the State Water Project to the…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Nothing embodied the promise of globalization more than the humble supply chain. Thanks to the integration of production across and within borders, consumers have come to…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Industrial production in the U.S. declined in September as supply-chain disruptions in the auto industry and lingering effects of Hurricane Ida weighed on manufacturing and mining…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Companies are holding on tightly to employees at the same time few other workers are available and prices are rising in wholesale markets facing supply constraints,…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Rising inflation is triggering anxiety around the world as a surge in demand following the easing of Covid-19 lockdowns has been confronted by supply bottlenecks and…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: American consumers stepped up their spending in September, a sign of resilient demand and rising inflation… Link to Story

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Investor efforts to recoup losses in five Chicago-area affordable housing bond deals are moving to civil courts as bankruptcy cases involving $170 million of municipal debt…