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The Legislature ended a special session after members concluded that there wasn’t time to overhaul the state’s underfunded pension systems.

A fact-finding report may not be the salve that Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Austin Beutner predicted.

The Federal Reserve raised borrowing costs for the fourth time this year, ignoring a stock-market selloff and defying pressure from President Donald Trump, while dialing back projections for interest rates and economic growth in 2019.

The tax fix is being lost in the rush by Congress to enact a temporary spending measure to keep the government operating through Feb. 8.

It remains unknown if Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis will continue Rick Scott’s practice of limiting new bond issuance.

A lone large deal came into an even stronger municipal bond market, as all eyes are on the Federal Open Market Committee.

The commonwealth intends to sell $915 million of tax-exempt new money and refunding bonds and $50 million of taxable bonds.

Existing home sales were up 1.9% to a seasonally adjusted 5.32 million-unit rate in November.

The U.S. current account deficit widened to $124.8 billion in the third quarter from a revised $101.2 billion gap in the previous quarter.

Webster University has struggled to balance operations as it suffers tuition revenue declines.