He is persuasive enough to have won 73 percent approval for the first city bond act passed in more than 25 years.

The couple reported $5,516 in capital gains from the sale of 15-year state and city bonds.

Two years later, the investments of the union pension funds in all city bonds reached almost $3.4 billion.

Moody's reduced its rating on city bonds to Baa-1 a few years ago.

As on Friday, few city bonds actually changed hands yesterday.

The park received a $72 million city bond in 2006 for repairs and improvements.

Professional investors sold more than $30 million of city bonds on Friday, traders said.

Two years later investments in all city bonds reached almost $3.4 billion, or 34 percent.

Prices of 30-year city bonds were offered at a price to yield about 8.40 percent, in line with late Friday.

The money was raised through the sale of city bonds.