Markets

Builders’ confidence in the market for new single-family homes slipped as the National Association of Home Builders' housing market index fell to 72.

Municipal bond buyers will focus on the high-rated but high-yielding sales tax securitization deal coming from Chicago on Wednesday.

Industrial production grew 0.9% in December, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday.

The former Morgan Stanley co-head of public finance has joined a Dallas-based municipal finance solution provider.

The New York region's service sector activity "continued to grow at a solid pace," according to the January Business Leaders Survey.

The municipal bond market on Tuesday priced the first of the week’s big new issues, before buyers turned their focus to the high-rated, but high-yielding sales tax securitization coming from Chicago on Wednesday.

The municipal bond market saw the first of the week’s big new issues price in the primary. Buyers will see about $3.35 billion of new deals hit the screens this week, with most of the volume coming on Wednesday and Thursday.

Chicago’s Sales Tax Securitization Corp. returns to the municipal bond market this week, offering high-yielding, high-rated paper to buyers hungry for supply.

Consumers’ inflation expectations gained, according to the October Survey of Consumer Expectations, released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Tuesday.

Moody's shifted the outlook on its A3 rating forSpringfield, Illinois, to negative.