North Dakota

Added debt drove one-notch downgrade but long-term benefits seen.

The three states are in the bottom of a ranking of state fiscal conditions by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Included in the FAA reauthorization package is $1.68 billion in supplemental disaster funding that would help cover the cost of recovery and rebuilding from Hurricane Florence last month.

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.

Volume was off in eight of the region's 11 states in the wake of tax reform and the end of advance refundings.

Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and North Dakota are vulnerable to a trade war, Moody's Investors Service says.

Membership in the Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board is voluntary, but the Supreme Court ruling may serve as an impetus for more states and e-commerce retailers to join.

The project is designed to protect Fargo, North Dakota and Moorhead, Minnesota from high waters.

A trade war would bring risks for states that do major business with Canada and Mexico, Fitch Ratings said after a seventh round of talks ended with no resolution.

Issuers in the Midwest sold $82.98 billion of debt last year, a 5% drop from 2016.