Jessica Lerner is a market reporter for The Bond Buyer, with a focus on national news in the United States. Her work also appears in American Banker. Jessica covers a wide range of topics in the finance industry, including budget deficits, bond insurance, credit ratings, and market trends.
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By: Jessica Lerner
Municipal bond supply projections for 2025 are at a high of $745 billion and a low of $480 billion, with most firms anticipating issuance next year
By: Jessica Lerner
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Munis have seen losses over the past week, culminating with Thursday seeing the biggest cuts to triple-A yield curves, as issuance slowed and muni
By: Jessica Lerner
The face amount of munis outstanding rose to $4.171 trillion, a 0.8% increase from Q2 2024 and 2.9% from Q3 2023, according to the latest Fed data.
Municipals were steady but with a slightly weaker tone Monday as U.S. Treasuries and equities closed the session mixed.
By: Jessica Lerner
By: Jessica Lerner
With investors now anticipating Wednesday's expected rate cut may be the last one for a while, "an overall bullish paradigm has been seriously weakened," noted Matt Fabian, a partner at Municipal Market Analytics, Inc.
As the market prepares for 2025, there's a lot of uncertainty around what the new administration will mean for the macroeconomic environment and interest rates, the latter of which may be impacted by policy around the deficit, said Steve Shutz, portfolio manager and director of tax-exempt fixed…
By: Jennifer Shea, Jessica Lerner
It's hard enough convincing local governments to spend money on cyber insurance that covers ransomware attacks, said Omid Rahmani, public finance cybersecurity lead at Fitch Ratings. The new and very specific threat of a hacked financing process, is "absolutely" underappreciated by the public…
By: Jessica Lerner
"Munis are grappling with a storm of uncertainty," said James Pruskowski, chief investment officer at 16Rock Asset Management.
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