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Wilshire Consulting said the aggregate funded ratio for U.S. state pension plans remained unchanged between and first and second quarters of 2018 at 70.8%, up 0.7 percentage points from the previous 12 months.

The proposed Treasury rules would limit states' use of charitable deductions as workarounds for the $10,000 cap on the federal deduction for state and local taxes.

A report on cyber-related risks released Wednesday by S&P Global warned that “a successful attack on an entity with limited resources could have a credit impact.”

Northeast municipal bond issuance sank 11.7% in the first half of 2018 compared to a year earlier, reflecting a national trend driven by federal tax changes.

The Trump administration’s effort to publish a proposed rule comes just over two months after the IRS announced May 23 it was working on the regulations to enforce the $10,000 cap on what previously was an unlimited personal deduction of state and local taxes, also known as SALT.

Tax Reform 2.0 would make permanent the lower individual tax rates in last year’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that are scheduled to expire in 2025.

A Civil War-era revenue measure is the centerpiece of the arguments in the lawsuit filed by four northeastern states.

The University of Maryland at Baltimore County told the legions who became instant fans Friday night: Come to our new municipal-bond financed events center.

Northeast municipal bond issuance was up 4% from 2016 to $121.3 billion.

The merger would create the fifth-largest Catholic health system in the country.