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S&P Global Ratings cautioned Chicago's leaders about issuing pension obligation bonds and avoiding a backslide on budget progress.

The Federal Open Market Committee should raise rates two, maybe three times to reach a neutral policy rate, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan said Friday.

Household survey is much more positive about total employment than establishment survey.

A new law takes effect Nov. 1 to allow New Jersey to collect sales tax on products shipped from out of state in the wake of the Supreme Court's Wayfair ruling.

Municipal bond supply plunges to under $6 billion next week after seeing over $10 billion of new issues priced this week.

Creditors' call for a receiver for PREPA is an Imperfect solution from a suspect source to be decided by the wrong authority – and it just might work.

The Oversight Board and Gov. Rosselló remain at odds over pensions and labor reform.

California revenues were $1.03 billion ahead of estimates in the first quarter of the fiscal year, according to the state's Department of Finance.

The last of the large municipal bond deals came to market on Thursday, led by a $1.5 billion healthcare offering from Ohio.

The city is also considering its first general obligation bond issue since 2017.

Regulators already have a template around which to build an exemption from Volcker for tender option bonds, wrote SIFMA's Michael Decker.

Proposition 4 would authorize $1.5 billion in state GO bonds for 13 childrens' hospitals around the state, eight of them private nonprofits.

The MSRB needs to better explain the mock advertisements in its compliance resource, a pair of industry groups told the board this week.

Things began to quiet down in the municipal bond market on Thursday, as most of the big deals have come and gone for the week.

With uncertainty about the tools used to measure the economy, Federal Reserve Board Vice Chair for Supervision Randal Quarles said Thursday, it is important to map out a monetary policy strategy and stick to it.

"I thought their approach was novel," Connecticut Lottery Corp. President Gregory Smith said of New Jersey's maneuver to boost pension funding.

A modernized version of the Taylor rule suggests keeping the fed funds rate target near current levels through 2021, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said Thursday.

Manufacturers report expansion at a slightly slower rate in October, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Report on Business respondents reported price indexes were “lower than their readings for most of this year.”

Rahm Emanuel, who is not seeking re-election, offered a budget with no tax increases or answers to long-term pension funding questions.

Kelly Jin, a former White House adviser, will work to streamline analytical and data practices in the Big Apple.