Weekly Market Update

Georgia

Georgia Issuer Impact

Strategic Signals & Commentary
Favorable

Refunding

Opportunity

County and school system callables of 2016–2017 vintage show 4–7% PV savings. Metro Atlanta credits are particularly well-positioned given recent ratings upgrades and aggressive scale compression versus national AAA MMD.

Favorable

New Money

Opportunity

Georgia Environmental Finance Authority and metro county GO deals clearing at scales 5–12 bps inside national MMD. State intercept programs continue to enhance school system paper materially.

Georgia Issuer Impact

Metro Atlanta counties (Fulton, Cobb, Gwinnett) remain the most active in the forward calendar. School system issuers benefit from the state intercept program, which delivers 20–30 bps of spread compression versus non-enhanced structures.

Regional Supply & Demand

Georgia negotiated supply ~$620M this week — a large metro GO, two school system refundings, and a GEFA water authority deal. Demand is deep across the curve; 20–25 year paper particularly well-bid.

Strategic Considerations

Fast-growth suburban counties should evaluate new-money capacity against sales-tax SPLOST collections. Current SPLOST coverage ratios support meaningful leverage above prior plan-of-finance baselines.

AAA MMD Yield Curve

Current Week Prior Month Prior Year

Federal Reserve & Market Expectations

Fed Funds Target
4.25% – 4.50%
FOMC Stance
Restrictive, data-dependent
Meeting Hold Cut Hike
May 2026 72% 26% 2%
Jun 2026 48% 49% 3%
Jul 2026 30% 68% 2%
Sep 2026 18% 80% 2%

Implied probabilities derived from 30-Day Fed Fund futures (CME FedWatch).

U.S. Treasury Benchmarks

Tenor Current Δ WoW Prior Wk Prior Mo Prior Yr 8-Wk Trend
2Y 3.95% -4 bp 3.99% 4.10% 4.72%
5Y 4.07% -2 bp 4.09% 4.18% 4.35%
10Y 4.28% +1 bp 4.27% 4.32% 4.21%
30Y 4.52% +3 bp 4.49% 4.47% 4.35%

Municipal AAA MMD Benchmarks

Tenor Current Δ WoW Prior Wk Prior Mo Prior Yr 8-Wk Trend
1Y 2.70% 2.70% 2.78% 3.15%
5Y 2.85% -2 bp 2.87% 2.94% 2.98%
10Y 3.12% +1 bp 3.11% 3.16% 2.95%
20Y 3.75% +2 bp 3.73% 3.77% 3.42%
30Y 4.02% +3 bp 3.99% 4.00% 3.68%