Chicago Bonds Lose Ground as Quinn’s Deadline Nears on Pensions
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Chicago’s bonds are trailing the municipal market, a sign that investors are leery about the city’s finances as Illinois Governor Pat Quinn decides today whether to sign a bill fixing the metropolis’s pensions.
The most-traded Chicago general-obligation bonds during the past week are taxable securities that were issued in March and mature in 30 years, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The debt changed hands June 6 at a yield of 5.71 percent, or 2.3 percentage points above benchmark Treasuries. That was the widest spread since May 19.