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Judge Swain may approve the amended version in the next few weeks.

Ahmed's appointment comes a few months after longtime SIFMA lawyer Ira Hammerman announced he would leave the job this year.

The muni market may get a temporary boost of support this week as investors received $18 billion of maturing and called bond proceeds on Sept. 1.

The MSRB's proposal to reduce trade reporting times will harm smaller dealers who don't have the resources to automate their order flow, according to comments the Board received.

Moody's dropped the city's rating a notch to A3 and kept a negative outlook on the credit. Persistent structural deficits and pension liabilities were factors.

The short-term funding bill would avoid a government shutdown ahead of midterm elections.

But it still remains slightly higher than it was a year ago.

A shift is underway at the Federal Reserve in how to describe neutral — the interest rate level that neither stimulates nor restrains growth — as it debates how much higher to hike.

Amendment 6, one of twelve proposed constitutional amendments the state's voters will decide Nov. 8, would give local officials more flexibility, supporters say.

Investors will be greeted Tuesday with a larger new-issue calendar, estimated at $6.087 billion, up from total sales of $5.551 billion in the week of Aug. 29.