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Producer prices final demand exceeded expectations by two-times over, while small business optimism shrunk.

The total number of COVID-19 disclosures reported to EMMA for the week ending Aug. 9 was about 700, down from nearly 1,000 the previous week.

Now investors have hit the reset button on municipal credit expectations and the corresponding return in demand has been quite strong.

Members of the economic research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco take a look at the relationship between the effective lower bound interest rates and inflation.

The competitive sale is scheduled for Aug. 19 with Stifel Nicolaus as financial advisor.

Moody's Investors Service says the appellate court decision could impede the state government's flexibility in dealing with coronavirus-driven budget woes.

Minority and women-owned business enterprises will now comprise 33% of city GO bond and Transitional Finance Authority book-runners and 40% for New York Water.

Municipals rallied Friday, with yields dropping by as much as one basis point on the long end.

Despite "progress" in getting people back to work, economists say the coronavirus pandemic creates downside risks to recovery.

The gap between the two sides includes state and local aid, with the administration offering to agree to $200 billion while the HEROES Act favored by Democrats would provide $915 billion.