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Nuveen and Preston Hollow Capital trade barbs over PHC's recent sale of university debt

The action in the municipal market won't slow down yet, as bond hungry money managers will get a third week in a row of issuance greater than $11 billion.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the city can manage through 2020 and will wait for the 2020 session to resurrect requests.

Though enforcement cases slightly decreased this past year, lawyers say the Securities and Exchange Commission is just as aggressive as ever.

Longtime IRS employee Allyson Belsome will serve as senior manager for the office of Tax Exempt Bonds.

With the holiday shopping season near, Friday's retail sales numbers left it to interpretation whether consumers are ready to spend.

The question of how to pay for the governor's $21 billion, 10-year transportation bill points to the political third rail of highway tolls.

Montreal businessman Anthony McCord will arrive next month as New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's chief transformation officer to address the authority's myriad operational and capital funding challenges.

Municipals spent Thursday following the rally in Treasuries, with new issues dominating the focus.

The state will pool the assets of 650 public safety pension funds outside Chicago into two new funds: one for police and one for firefighters.

“The channel doesn’t matter in terms of responsibility for the information,” said SEC Chairman Jay Clayton.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell doesn't see signs of recession in “the star economy,” while the St. Louis Fed's Bullard warns of a sharper-than-expected slowdown.

Clayton described the Secured Overnight Financing Rate known as SOFR, as “a good risk free benchmark.”

Next week's $500 million taxable revenue bond deal is backed by a 1% surcharge on annual incomes higher than $1 million.

David Hammer, vice president and head of municipal bond portfolio management at PIMCO, discusses munis' historic year in terms of performance and inflows and breaks down what makes muni so attractive. This podcast, recorded in September, is hosted by Aaron Weitzman.

The Chicago Civic Federation supports the proposed budget despite worries

The municipal market was hit with a ton and a half of new issuance with bond hungry investors waiting with open arms and cash in hand.

Cross, who served as associate tax legislative counsel at the Office of Tax Policy until Friday, said that he resigned in order to be closer to family.

Five Republican representatives asked three Democrats to withdraw their legal brief opposing the agreement.

The most telling part of Fed Chair Jerome Powell's appearance before the Joint Economic Committee was when he refused to commit to the fed funds rate staying where it is for the next year.