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S&P dropped Alaska to AA amid dwindling budget reserves.

The Treasury Department Tuesday auctioned $45 billion of four-week bills at a 0.955% high yield, a price of 99.925722.

Sean Carney, director and head of municipal strategy at BlackRock, talks about municipal issuance in the first half of 2017 and makes some predictions on how the second half of the year will look. He also discusses distressed states — which state could recover first and why and how a downgrade of Illinois would be a big deal for the market. Hosted by Aaron Weitzman in a conversation recorded on June 29.

The Grapevine Convention Center proved too small for a public hearing on potential bond projects that started off with the fire marshal running more than 100 people out of an overfilled auditorium Monday.

A decreased reliance on bonds to finance capital investments has created a need for more municipal market research tools, experts said.

While EMMA has helped the market, it has not bridged the gap between institutional and retail.

Builders’ confidence in the market for new single-family homes slipped as the National Association of Home Builders' housing market index fell to 64 in July from a downwardly revised 66 in June.

The city's finances and bond ratings are strong, Kasim Reed told the Brookings conference.

Municipal bond traders are set to see the first of the week’s new issue hit the screens on Tuesday, led by the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York’s four competitive bond sales.

U.S. import prices fell by 0.2% in June on a significant drop in fuel prices and industrial supplies and materials, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Tuesday.