Municipal Bonds

Featured Municipal Bond Issue: Georgetown University — $632 Million in Taxable Revenue Bonds

Featured Municipal Bond Issue, Week of 1/7/2019:  Georgetown University — $632 Million (Taxable) Revenue  Bonds   This week’s featured bond is a large taxable municipal revenue bond.  Georgetown University is slotted to issue a $305 million Series 2019A bonds...

Fiscal Year 2017 Municipal Bond Audit Times Are Still Too Slow

Municipal Bond Audit Times Show Slight Improvement Since 2015 But Most Still Late to the Table  --  The County, State and City Sectors are the Least Timely By Richard A. Ciccarone Municipal bond analysts and investors are accustomed to waiting a lot longer for...

Growth in Public Higher Education Debt Outstanding Outpaces All Other Major Municipal Bond Sectors

Public Higher Education Debt Outstanding Has Grown by Over 80% Since 2007 Leading All Other Major Municipal Bond Credit Sectors by Richard A. Ciccarone Municipal Bond Credit Sectors -- Ten Year Outstanding Debt Trend Based on municipal bond credit sector medians, ...

Risk Perception of State and Local Government Debt May Stress Taxes and Leverage Without a Certainty of Payment – Use of Statutory Liens, Special Revenues and Other Means of Assurance

By James E. Spiotto Fiscal distress of or perception of risk of nonpayment by government begets higher cost of borrowing and even loss of access to the market The perception of fiscal distress leads to higher interest rates (cost of borrowing) in the global markets:...

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