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Managing Director, Miller Buckfire & Co.

Director and Analytical Leader, Fitch Ratings

Managing Director, PNC Capital Markets

Managing Director, Swap Financial Group

Director, Public Finance Underwriting at UBS

Director, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

More than 300 market participants, including 100 investors, attended the city's annual conference Friday to hear from Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Municipal bond supply will keep on keeping on this week, continuing a boom that started August.

When it comes to economists, the Federal Reserve is having little success achieving greater diversity.

The U.S. economy is growing slower than it has in the past couple of years, and conditions may get worse in the next few quarters, according to Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard.

Federal Reserve officials will probably seriously consider a new tool to contain short-term interest rates as they deliberate over when to start expanding the central bank’s balance sheet again, former New York Fed President William Dudley said.

A former top Federal Reserve official, who oversaw the U.S. central bank’s trading desk, has warned that the type of actions taken so far to quell this week’s turmoil in money markets may not be enough to keep conditions calm and fresh debt purchases may be needed.

The primary market was somewhat stagnant after the FOMC but things should revert back how they were before — with most deals getting put away quickly.

Bank holdings in municipal securities continue to decline, as retail investors and mutual funds increase their holdings.

The household employment survey showed good economic news, while other measures were mixed.

The Federal Reserve announced a series of overnight and term operations for the next three weeks, signaling that it has control over this vital corner of the financial markets.

Bipartisan legislation to streamline TIFIA has been introduced in Congress by two Texans.

States and cities have begun to factor climate risk into budgetary and other planning.

The Federal Reserve took center stage again Friday, with two presidents explaining why they dissented at the latest meeting and Vice Chair Richard Clarida terming it “healthy” debate.

Moody's Investors Service changed its outlook to positive on the state's Aa3 general obligation rating after Louisiana estimated a $500 million surplus.