Kyle Glazier

The Fed decided to continue previously announced programs aimed at fostering a stronger economic recovery, the Federal Open Market Committee said in a statement released Wednesday following the FOMC's two-day meeting.

Sales of new single-family houses climbed 5.7% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 389,000 in September, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.

The District of Columbia's Chief Financial Officer will hand over nearly three years of internal audits and add a disclosure to the district's most recent debt issuance after a request from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Airports will continue to remain at risk for credit downgrades until passenger enplanements reach consistent growth of 3%, far above the flat-to-negative trajectory Moody's Investors Service expects.

Existing home sales fell 1.7% in September to a seasonally adjusted 4.75 million-unit rate, following a revised 4.83 million rate in August, the National Association of Realtors announced Friday.

WASHINGTON — Mileage-based systems could yield revenues between three and eight times higher than the gas taxes currently used to maintain the public road system and back bonds, the Congressional Budget Office found.

Spanish infrastructure investment giant Cintra will be the private partner on a more than $1 billion public-private partnership to develop the Route 460 Corridor project in southeastern Virginia, sources said.

Housing starts soared 15% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 872,000 in September from a revised estimate of 758,000 in August, originally reported as 750,000, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.

Industrial production climbed 0.4% in September, while capacity use ticked up to 78.3%, the Federal Reserve reported Tuesday.

The District of Columbia will sell $900 million of income tax-secured bonds in November, the biggest amongst a rash of deals closing the calendar year.

Business inventories advanced 0.6% to $1,601.7 billion in August, while sales climbed 0.5% to $1,246.6 billion, the Commerce Department reported Monday.

Retail sales rose 1.1% to $412.9 billion in September after climbing a revised 1.2% in August, originally reported as a 0.9% advance, the Commerce Department reported Monday.

The nation's drinking and wastewater systems are extremely underfunded and in need of billions of dollars of additional bond financing, according to a new study from the Center for American Progress.

The federal government ran a $75 billion budget surplus in September after posting an unrevised $190.5 billion deficit the previous month, the Treasury Department reported Friday, resulting in a final fiscal year 2012 deficit of $1.1 trillion.

A database charting new college graduate salaries in Virginia could help the credit of public universities by underscoring the value of certain degrees and encouraging efficiency, Moody's Investors Service said Friday.

Rep. Mike Coffman, R- Colo., has introduced legislation that would allow governmental and 501(c)(3) nonprofit bonds to be refunded a second time so that issuers and borrowers could save money by taking advantage of low interest rates.

The U.S. international trade deficit was $44.2 billion in August, a 4.1% increase from the revised $42.5 billion deficit in July, originally reported as $42 billion, the Commerce Department reported Thursday

Most of the twelve Federal Reserve districts reported continued modest economic growth in August and September, with healthy tourism and improved residential real estate conditions somewhat offset by mixed reports on consumer spending and manufacturing, according to the Beige Book, released by the Federal Reserve Wednesday.

Sales of merchant wholesalers climbed 0.9% to $405.4 billion in August after falling a revised 0.2% in July, originally reported as a 0.1% decline, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.

Transportation and infrastructure policy has taken a back seat throughout the presidential campaign so far, a fact that industry insiders think is an intentional dodge of the daunting challenge of funding new investment.