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Top-rated municipal bonds finished unchanged on Thursday, traders said, as the primary market wound down, with only a few larger-sized deals still left to sell.

The remaking of 10 miles highway through Denver and its suburbs is the largest project in Colorado Department of Transportation history.

The state will restructure an escrow account created to advance refund bonds that were found not to be callable.

The Treasury Department Tuesday auctioned as a reopening $14 billion of its four-year and eight-month Treasury inflation protected securities at a 0.117% high yield.

Top-rated municipal bonds were unchanged at mid-session, traders said, as the primary market wound down, with only a few larger-sized deals still left to sell.

The Treasury Department announced on Thursday that it will auction $72 billion of 13- and 26-week bills on Monday,

The Treasury Department announced on Thursday that it will auction $88 billion of two-, five-, and –seven year notes next week.

Primary market volume in California and the Far West region rose in the first half even as the national figure was down.

Manufacturing activity in the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's region "expanded at a faster pace and expectations remained solid" in August, according to the bank's monthly manufacturing survey, released Thursday.

Existing home sales fell 1.3% in July, the National Association of Realtors said on Thursday.