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The California Housing Finance Agency made its first use of a program that enables it to issue bonds beyond its yearly private activity bond cap.

Municipal bond volume kept rolling in August, producing the second-highest volume for the month in the past decade, marking the third consecutive month this year of greater-than $40 billion.

St. Louis and Indianapolis are both eyeing debt financings to expand their convention centers.

The refinancings will ease near-term debt service pressures as pledged tax revenue tumbles and convention center business remains halted with uncertain near-term prospects.

Rep. Richard Neal was the lead architect of the muni-friendly provisions in the Moving Forward Act which passed the House in July.

The pace of recovery will not only be fragmented, but will take a lot longer than originally thought, according to Raphael Bostic, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta president.

About 30 million Americans risk being evicted in coming months because they can’t pay rent, one report says.

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida left open the possibility of employing Treasury yield caps at some point in the future, though he indicated it’s not likely now and reiterated the central bank’s rejection of negative interest rates.

There isn’t any urgency for the Federal Reserve to offer more clarity on how long it will hold interest rates near zero at the moment because investors already understand the central bank won’t be tightening for a while, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said.

The university and its health system are experiencing the biggest shortfalls ever, president Thomas Katsouleas told Connecticut lawmakers.