Northeast

The competitive issuance will include roughly $35 million of taxable bonds.

The Tobacco Settlement Corp. is coming to market with over $3 billion of municipal bonds in a refunding deal that takes out all of the securities issued back in 2007.

The New Jersey legislature again passed legislation to hand police officers and firefighters control of their pension fund.

Proponents call the move the right medicine for ailing Connecticut, while opponents say the measures are overly restrictive.

Restructuring expert Michael Imber says momentum is building for such a strategy, which he says could improve the state's funding ratio.

State government credit support will bring the junk-rated city's coming taxable bond sale up to investment grade.

The report illustrates how federal, state and local laws must be changed if the Supreme Court rules in favor of South Dakota and against Wayfair Inc. in an online sales tax case.

Hartford's council authorized an agreement for the state to pay the city's debt over two decades while accepting state oversight.

The city has underfunded pensions and plans to increase spending to support its school district.

Securities industry profits surged in 2017, as the the bonus pool hit an estimated $31.4 billion, according to an New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.