The top municipal financial advisors wrote a total of $85.973 billion in 1,837 transactions in the first three months of 2021, up from the $74.881 billion in 1,513 deals the same period last year.







Chicago made the second half of its supplemental pension payment, fulfilling a budgetary pledge and assuaging concerns of aldermen and rating agencies.
Market participants broadly expected a rate hike, but the FOMC statement and press conference both rang more hawkish than what the markets probably anticipated, said Chris Brigati, managing director and CIO at SWBC.
A U.S. Appeals Court for the Tenth Circuit ruling vacated a lower court's permanent injunction against a project to expand the Gross Reservoir.
Fitch Ratings revised its outlook to stable from negative on the Corpus Christi utility and S&P removed it from CreditWatch with negative implications.
With the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding sunsetting at the end of the month, the American Public Transportation Association is staging a fly-in to lobby for advance appropriations.
Chicago will be a regional water supplier, and its water could draw the next Great Migration, Department of Water Management Commissioner Randy Conner said.