Kyle Glazier

Retail sales rose 0.5% to $415.7 billion in December after climbing a revised 0.4% in November, originally reported as a 0.3% increase, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.

The International Bridge Tunnel and Turnpike Association has announced a campaign to elevate the role of tolling in transportation funding, backed by a recent Reason Foundation study that advocates for expanded use of toll financing.

The federal government ran a $260 million budget deficit in December after running $172.1 billion in the red the previous month, the Treasury Department reported Friday.

Pennsylvania has released guidelines for public-private partnerships under the state's new P3 authorization law, and announced it would accept unsolicited proposals during May and October.

The U.S. international trade deficit was $48.7 billion in November, a 15.8% increase from the revised $42.1 billion deficit in October, originally reported as $42.2 billion, the Commerce Department reported Friday.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce unveiled its 2013 policy agenda Thursday, calling for an increase in the federal gas tax at a time when some state leaders and industry experts are no longer pursuing that goal.

The Virginia General Assembly will decide whether to grant itself more oversight over privatizing the state's port facilities, as well as several other bond-related questions.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has introduced his transportation plan, a major overhaul of the commonwealth's tax system that would see the state gas tax disappear in favor of higher sales taxes and other fees.

Consumer credit climbed $16.1 billion, or 7%, in November to $2.768.5 trillion, the Federal Reserve reported Tuesday.

Long-term pressures continue to plague bonds backed by the federal highway trust fund, but investors can offset their risk by investing in debt also secured by other revenue, according to a Wells Fargo analysis released Monday.

New orders for manufactured goods remained almost unchanged in November, the Commerce Department reported Friday.

Growing traffic between the United States and its international neighbors is leading to a need for more border road crossings, but a new HNTB white paper stresses the need for careful and conservative revenue studies for near-border toll points.

As the economic situation remained about unchanged from the fall, the Federal Open Market Committee agreed to a new round of asset purchases but was divided on how long to pursue the strategy, according to the minutes of the committee's Dec. 11-12 meeting, released Thursday.

Construction spending fell 0.3% to a seasonally adjusted estimated annual rate of $866 billion in November, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.

Municipal bond and city interests are spending the final hours before the fiscal cliff deadline watching and waiting, remaining hopeful that lawmakers will agree on a slimmed-down last-minute deal not including any threats to the muni interest tax exemption.

The Public-Private Partnership sector will experience broad but slow growth in the coming year, experts predict.

Sales of new single-family houses rose 4.4% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 377,000 in November, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

The transportation sector will spend next year looking for opportunities to achieve limited legislative goals, while hoping to stay out of the way of lawmakers who may have to slash funds in ongoing efforts to deal with the debt crisis.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell announced final agreement has been reached on a $1.4 billion public-private partnership to finance, design, and build a new 55-mile section of U.S. Route 460 in the southeastern part of the commonwealth.

New orders for manufactured durable goods rose 0.7% to $220.9 billion in November, the Commerce Department reported Friday.