Kyle Glazier is the Washington Bureau Chief of The Bond Buyer. He has previously covered securities law, the Far West, and markets. He has previously written for the Houston Chronicle, Albany Times-Union, and The Denver Post. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Arizona State University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado.
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The U.S. international trade deficit was $46.0 billion for February, a 12.4% decrease from the slightly revised $52.5 billion deficit for January, originally reported as a $52.6 billion shortage, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.
April 12 -
WASHINGTON — U.S. import prices rose 1.3% and export prices were up 0.8% in March after a revised decline in import prices of 0.1% in February, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.
April 11 -
The federal government’s budget deficit was $198.2 billion in March, down from $231.7 billion in February, but up $10.0 billion or 5% from the $188.2 billion deficit a year ago, the Treasury Department reported Wednesday.
April 11 -
U.S. import prices rose 1.3% and export prices were up 0.8% in March after a revised decline in import prices of 0.1% in February, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.
April 11 -
Sales of merchant wholesalers were up 1.2% to $409.4 billion in February, while inventories rose 0.9%, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.
April 10 -
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has launched a probe of the California High Speed Rail Authority, asking its board members to preserve all records related to the nearly $4 billion in federal funds approved that, along with a proposed $2.7 billion bond issue, would finance the bullet train along the California coast.
April 10 -
Sales of merchant wholesalers were up 1.2% to $409.4 billion in February after remaining unchanged in January, while inventories rose 0.9%, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.
April 10 -
A $300 million bond issue designed to keep tolls down on the controversial Dulles Toll Road may be in jeopardy as the Virginia General Assembly votes on a proposed budget that does not include the authorization for the debt.
April 9 -
Consumer credit increased by $8.7 billion, or 4.2%, in February to $2.521.8 trillion, the Federal Reserve reported Friday.
April 6 -
Non-farm payroll employment rose 120,000 in March and the unemployment rate dipped to 8.2%, the Labor Department reported Friday.
April 6 -
The Department of Transportation has received $10.2 billion in applications for the $500 million available through its latest round of TIGER funding, highlighting the pressing need for infrastructure investment, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Thursday.
April 5 -
WASHINGTON — Seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims fell 6,000 to 357,000 for the week ending March 31, the lowest level since April 19, 2008, when there were 352,000 such claims, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
April 5 -
Seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims fell to 357,000 for the week ending March 31, the lowest level since April 19, 2008, when there were 352,000 such claims, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
April 5 -
WASHINGTON — The Maryland Transportation Authority will price more than $260 million of tax-exempt bonds to refund 2002 bonds and to finance a passenger walkway and tunnel for the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, according to bond documents released Tuesday.
April 4 -
Standard & Poor's issued its first public rating of a public-private partnership in the United States, a BBB-minus for a project to build a tunnel under the Elizabeth River between Norfolk, Va., and Portsmouth.
April 3 -
WASHINGTON — New orders for manufactured goods were up $6 billion, or 1.3%, to $468.4 billion in February, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.
April 3 -
New orders for manufactured goods were up $6.0 billion or 1.3% to $468.4 billion in February, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.
April 3 -
WASHINGTON — Construction spending was down 1.1% to a seasonally adjusted estimated annual rate of $808.9 billion in February, following a 0.8% decline in January, the Commerce Department reported Monday.
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Construction spending was down 1.1% to a seasonally adjusted estimated annual rate of $808.9 billion in February, following a 0.8% decline in January, the Commerce Department reported Monday.
April 2 -
WASHINGTON — A coalition of state departments of transportation have banded together to urge the House Republican leadership to avoid including any language in a transportation bill that would remove "important optional financing tools" for some public-private partnerships.
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