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Restoration of tax-exempt advance refunding might be inserted into the Senate's coronavirus relief package.

They contribute more than $77 billion annually, or 9.4% of city economic output, according to the city comptroller.

Municipals finished little changed ahead of this week's new-issue slate while retail investors are coming back into the market.

Analysts remained concerned about the employment numbers as some states had to postpone or reverse some reopening plans.

The Bi-State Development Agency, which manages St. Louis public transit, took a two-notch downgrade from S&P Global Ratings over the pandemic's impacts.

Yields have essentially remained flat since mid-June as the market has digested new issues well and investors are starved for paper, especially tax-exempts.

The New York/New Jersey agency's issuance of $1.1 billion in taxable notes underscores multi-year revenue challenges it confronts due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Both the June jobs report and newest jobless claims report came in better than expected as the U.S. economy continues to improve.

Marc Pfeffer, chief investment officer at CLS Investments, talks about today’s municipal bond market and looks to the future.

Preston Hollow says another court ruling proves some of its defamation claims. Nuveen counters that accusations fail to rise to defamation because many are opinion or true.