Looking ahead, Burt Mulford, a manager of municipal bonds at Eagle Asset Management, believes that Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Ratings may also upgrade California from its current A ranking, the sixth-highest, over the next few months.
“The trend is there — there’s going to be another upgrade soon,” Mulford said in the article. “Cal is going to start trading through the AAA scale, just because of demand.”
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Max Chen contributed to this article.