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With rates trending higher, the county still hopes an advance refunding will save water and sewer ratepayers $68 million.

The possibility of the municipal market losing both advance refundings and private activity bonds brought a spike in issuance that's likely to extend into December.

Billions of dollars of new paper hit on the market on Thursday, as yields began moving down for the first time this week.

With ever-changing rules and regulations making an advisor's job harder, 280 CapMarkets launched with the goal of not only saving an advisor's time but making the job easier. 280's Gurinder Ahluwalia and Jason Ware sit down to discuss how technology allows both institutions and issuers to bring different types of value to the table that wasn't necessarily there before. Hosted by Aaron Weitzman.

This busy week will end with a bang, as four of the five largest deals are set to price on Thursday.

House Ways and Means Committee Chair Kevin Brady said the private-activity bond provision was included in the House tax bill so lawmakers would have more time to discuss these bonds.

The Chicago Business Barometer fell to 63.9 in November from 66.2 in October.

The seasonally adjusted Milwaukee Report on Business decreased to 59.62 in November from 63.61 in October.

Personal income rose 0.4% in October, compared with a 0.3% gain expected. At the same time, nominal PCE was up 0.3%, as expected.

Initial claims for U.S. state unemployment benefits fell by 2,000 to 238,000 in the November 25 holiday week, only slightly below the 240,000 level expected, data released by the Labor Department Thursday showed.