Article: New issuance shoots up 43%, to $191 billion, from year ago.

New-issue municipal bond volume continued to surge through the first 10 months of 1992, rising 43% to $191.5 billion from $133.55 billion in the same period of 1991, according to figures compiled by Securities Data Co.

Although refundings continue to fuel the growth of long-term volume, in the past two months new-money issues have begun to keep pace.

Through October, refundings soared 138% from a year ago, to $90.62 billion from $38.06 billion, while new-money issuance advanced 6%, to $100.88 billion from $95.49 billion. But in the past two months, refundings have declined sharply, from $10.88 billion in August to $7.14 billion in September and $6.89 ...

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