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Municipal bond buyers on Tuesday snapped up deals from New Jersey, New York City and Texas issuers.

Bond insurers and legal counsel battled for share of a smaller market as Assured Guaranty and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP stayed atop the rankings.

Changes the Federal Reserve Board made in 2016 to its Liquidity Coverage Ratio rules would treat munis more restrictively than other, similar Level 2B high quality liquid assets.

Municipal bond buyers were rewarded as a bevy of new deals hitting the market on Tuesday.

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Luke Bronin, in an interview at the Brookings Municipal Finance Conference, said Connecticut's capital city is "in a stronger position than we’ve been in a long time."

Fitch Ratings affirmed its A-minus rating and positive outlook for toll revenue bonds issued for the South Bay Expressway.

The week's primary activity got off to a mixed start as the NYC TFA rounded up more retail orders on its big sale.

States and localities can’t continue to postpone resolving their pension problems or they will crowd out essential services and infrastructure and lose population, Chapman Strategic Advisors managing director James Spiotto says in a paper to be delivered in Washington on Tuesday.

Moody's Investors Service affirmed the state’s ratings and revised its outlook to stable from negative.

Municipal bond buyers are patiently awaiting sizable new issues to set the tone for the rest of the week.

Kalotay faults the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for not requiring training in options-based analytics as part of their certification of municipal advisor representatives.

Investors began lining up for the New York City Transitional Finance Authority’s nearly $1 billion building aid revenue bond offering on Friday.

Chicago's 2017 CAFR offers deep dive into Chicago's fiscal gains and deeper strains.

State and local governments were advised Thursday to avoid imposing burdens on out-of-state e-commerce retailers that could spark a new round of litigation as they begin implementing the Supreme Court’s June 21 South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. ruling on sales taxes.

Ipreo estimates weekly bond volume at $9.2 billion, consisting of $7.5 billion of negotiated deals and $1.7 billion of competitive sales.

CPS inches up speculative grade credit ladder, which in turn helps garner Chicago a stable outlook.

During a webinar Thursday moderated by the National League of Cities, officials pointed out that the South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. sales tax case has been remanded by the U.S. Supreme Court back to the South Dakota Supreme Court.

Twenty-three years after hitting rock bottom, D.C. has a triple-A rating.

The weekly average yield to maturity of The Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index, which is based on 40 long-term bond prices, dipped to 3.96% from 3.97% the week before.