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The Long Island county named Frank Zarb to lead a task force aimed at tackling the county’s long-term budget challenges.

The investment bank attributed the exit of 15 from the public finance team to market conditions and a strategic review.

Muni market groups got a long-awaited win when the House passed banking legislation classifying certain munis as high-quality liquid assets, even if it wasn't as big a win as hoped.

Water, wastewater, and securitization deals, and possibly an O'Hare airport sale, are still to come from Chicago this year.

Federal Reserve officials said the economic outlook warranted another interest-rate hike “soon” and signaled they would welcome a modest overshoot of their 2% inflation target, indicating they're in no rush to tighten more aggressively.

Municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session as several big deals hit the market.

The Walton Family Foundation provided seed funds to create two “innovative” financing vehicles for charter school facilities.

In an effort to find proof of payment for many of the projects paid for with funds from the 2014 bond, the Greenville Independent School District Board of Trustees has selected Whitley Penn as the auditing firm that will review payments made to Bartlett Cocke General Contractors under the bond election program.

New single-family home sales fell by 1.5% to 662,000 in April following downward revisions to the sales pace in both February and March.

The bank deregulatory bill passed by Congress on Tuesday would also make fewer banks systemically important and close a legal loophole that had allowed banks to defraud Puerto Rico investors.