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
Municipals were steady throughout most of the curve outside of small bumps on the short end while municipal bond mutual funds flipped back to inflows for the first week of the year.
Municipal yields continued to climb higher as U.S. Treasuries were weaker and equities ended mixed.
Firefighters at a burning structure during the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles Wednesday. CAL FIRE
By: Jessica Lerner
Municipals were weaker for the third consecutive trading session amid a heavy new-issue calendar, while U.S. Treasury yields fell slightly and equities ended mixed.
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Municipals improved Wednesday amid a large new-issue slate, though underperformed a U.S. Treasury rally, after the consumer price index showed a slowdown in inflation.
Municipals were slightly firmer Thursday as the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority deal was upsized to $1.6 billion and outflows returned to muni mutual funds.
The Regents of the University of California leads the negotiated calendar with $2 billion of general revenue refunding bonds.
Underperforming since the calendar turned, "munis have continued to cheapen over the past three weeks as Treasury returns are about flat for the year while munis are down 0.31%," said Jason Wong, vice president of municipals at AmeriVet Securities.
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