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Muni issuance will pick up next year, said George Friedlander, managing partner of Court Street Research Group.

Both sides of the e-commerce sales tax debate tee up their arguments before the high court hears the case on Tuesday.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao heard bipartisan criticism from lawmakers for the administration’s failure to fully fund the Highway Trust Fund and was told the White House plan for privatizing the Federal Aviation Administration won’t pass Congress.

Cities deny NAM charge that they committed securities fraud by failing to adequately address climate risk in their muni bond official statements.

Lanny Schwartz brings varied experience to a new role at the MSRB, including with the derivatives that could be poised to make a comeback because of the prohibition on advance refundings.

The revenue procedure implements a proposal in President Trump's infrastructure plan that will help facilitate public-private partnership arrangements.

The proposed dual-track rail tunnel connecting New Jersey and Manhattan is opposed by President Trump even though the White House says it is expediting approval of major infrastructure projects.

The proposed legislation formally allows certain but not all taxpayers to have access to their IRS audit case file prior to dispute resolution hearings, ending the requirement to file a request under the Freedom of Information Act.

Matosantos' ownership of renewable energy businesses on the island is said to conflict with responsibility overseeing PREPA.

An MSRB study gauges the effect exchange-traded funds may have on muni market liquidity, a key question in the minds of some regulators.

An unsealed whistleblower lawsuit accuses eight Wall Street and regional banks and broker-dealers that served as remarketing agents of fraud and collusion in resetting rates for variable rate demand obligations issued by state and local issuers in Illinois.

Eleven states and five cities will also receive a share of the CDBG disaster grants, with the biggest amount of $4.7 billion going to Texas for the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey.

The MSRB said the paper was prompted in part by the tax law's prohibition on advance refundings and the fact that interest rate swap rules intersect with the board's rules for municipal advisors.

People involved in the $3.5 billion sale received notices that there would be no enforcement action.

Employers in New York also are allowed to implement a 5% payroll tax as a way of paying some of their employees’ state income taxes.

The three islands of the USVI have received more than $1 billion in federal disaster assistance through March 27, according to FEMA spokesman Manuel Broussard.

Gribbin's resignation, which followed Gary Cohn's departure, means that the two major administration officials charged with developing and selling the president's infrastructure plan are gone.

It's important and constructive to talk about these kinds of alternatives to advance refundings, market participants said.

State and local governments in some cases weren’t disclosing terms of direct borrowings, private placements that exposed them to risks different from those related to other types of debt.

The SEC wants a quick end to its case against former Ramapo, N.Y. town supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence, but St. Lawrence's lawyer wants a federal judge to proceed to trial.