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Factory orders fell 0.1% in October, a smaller decline than the expected 0.3% drop.

The New York economy is expanding with “across the board increases,” and employment at its best level in more than two years, the Institute for Supply Management-New York’s Report on Business index, released Monday, indicated.

As municipal market participants are awaiting the next step in the tax bill process, they are also preparing for one of the busiest and biggest weeks the market has ever seen.

The Senate’s vote to approve its tax bill means advance refundings are all but dead. The future of private-activity bonds hangs in the balance as the differences with the House’s version are resolved.

Senate Republicans narrowly approved the most sweeping rewrite of the U.S. tax code in three decades, slashing the corporate tax rate and providing temporary tax-rate cuts for most Americans.

As lawmakers worked over the details of tax tax legislation, municipal market participants prepared to embark on what may be a record-setting week for issuance.

Both the House and Senate bills would end Puerto Rico’s status as an offshore tax haven.

Navnoor Kang, the former director of fixed income for the New York State Common Retirement Fund, has pleaded guilty to criminal fraud charges.

The state increased the size of the deals by 70%, with its bond finance director citing plans by "the clowns in D.C." to outlaw advance refundings.

Economic development leaders on Wednesday cleared a major final hurdle for the development of Glacier Rail Park when the Flathead County commissioners unanimously approved a resolution for port authority revenue bonds needed to finance the relocation of CHS to the rail park.