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Business activity “grew slightly in New York State,” the January Empire State Manufacturing Survey indicates.

The state expects to see an extra $265 million in tax revenues for fiscal 2019, which ends Sept. 30, and $225 million in fiscal 2020.

Jersey City's legal settlements with two major entities are a credit positive, according to Moody's Investors Service.

The municipal bond market will see a plethora of deals hit screens for both institutions and retail, as sellers look for a change in buyer psychology from last week.

Rosana Aguilar is expected to focus on maintenance and repair of existing roads by the authority, which is in Title III bankruptcy with $4.1 billion of bond debt.

As the federal government shutdown draws close to a month in length, the District of Columbia is coping fairly well.

Issuance in Texas during 2018 was down 23% from 2017, reflecting a national slump that followed federal tax law changes that ended advance refundings.

On paper, it still looks like a dynamite macroeconomic environment in the U.S. But outside the numbers, some cracks are starting to emerge, said former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen.

Three lawsuits claiming fraud in the variable-rate demand obligation market are headed toward key court rulings in coming weeks.

Extremely tight labor market conditions don’t necessarily mean much higher wage growth, according to Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco researchers.

The municipal bond market and its participants are ready for what they are hoping is a busier and better week than the last.

Consumers’ inflation expectations held for the short-term, but ticked up for three years, as respondents expect the unemployment rate to climb.

Tim Schaefer will remain California's deputy director of public finance under Fiona Ma.

Illinois and Chicago will be this week's headliners as the state comes under new leadership while the city sells the biggest municipal bond deal of the week — a $551 million offering from the Sales Tax Securitization Corp.

A city task force has restored nearly $40 million in unreconciled cash accounts that was driven largely by duplicate debt service entries.

After a lackluster week, the muni market is hoping to get back on track.

Jared Polis vowed to find solutions to the underfunding of the state's transportation system.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell voiced concern that the central bank’s bond purchases were distorting financial markets and pushed for an early start to reducing them back when he was a governor in 2013.

Gov. Nathan Deal, who leaves office Monday, said incoming state revenues were down 4.5% in December compared to 2017.

Municipals were mostly stronger Friday ahead of next week’s $6.4 billion new issue calendar.