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The changes will slim down underwriters' disclosures to issuers, which many believed had become too lengthy and wordy to be useful.

Taxables remain in focus this week with deals out of Texas and Wisconsin. California comes with $682M of exempts competitively.

S&P Global Ratings elevated Nevada's rating to AA-plus, two days after a Moody's upgrade.

A day after a big correction, the White House sent mixed signals on Friday setting up a possible flight-to-quality for munis next week.

The labor deal with teachers to end an 11-school-day strike puts pressure on Chicago Public Schools in the out years, say FItch and S&P.

The number of trades decreased about 16% to 2.01 million from the same quarter in 2018.

U.S. consumers are wary of possible threats to future economic growth.

A powerful equity market whacked Treasuries and munis followed suit and as much as a 7 bp correction ensued.

California, Massachusetts and New York came closest to utilizing their volume caps for PABs in 2018, according to a recent survey by the Council of Development Finance Agencies.

Kenneth Potts, senior vice president and portfolio manager at Fiera Capital, checks in on the state of the municipal bond market. He talks about the effect of the SALT deduction on high-tax states and supply and demand factors in this podcast recorded in September. Chip Barnett hosts.