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As the dust settles on the SEC's 15c2-12 announcement, questions loom about how difficult it will be to implement.

Volume was off in eight of the region's 11 states in the wake of tax reform and the end of advance refundings.

Municipal bonds were firm and little changed on Tuesday as new issue supply started to price.

The Federal Open Market Committee will have to raise the fed funds target rate three or four times to hit neutral rate.

The region's services sector “continued to expand” but at a slightly slower pace in August.

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic said he would not vote for a hike that would cause the Treasury yield curve to invert.

Judge Laura Taylor Swain sided with the retired employees, saying the bondholders' security interest was not properly perfected.

One of Baird's new bankers expands its presence in the Chicago region.

Trading was muted after last week’s bounty of bond sales, as the market looked ahead to this week’s larger deals, including a $920 million Illinois financing.

A typical quiet summer Monday unfolded, with trading activity muted as the market reflected on last week’s bountiful volume and looked ahead with anticipation to some this week’s larger deals, including the $920 million Illinois financing, muni traders said.

The final rules will focus on debt obligations on a similar level as bonds, an effort to respond to comments that the first proposal was too broad.

President Donald Trump said he expected Jerome Powell to be a cheap-money Fed chairman.

As director of the Fed's Division of Research and Statistics, David Wilcox is responsible for briefing the Federal Open Market Committee on the outlook for the national economy.

Moody's lowered the South Carolina-owned public utility’s bond rating to A2, and its bank bond rating to A3.

The Lone Star state grabs the spotlight this week as Texas prepares to sell $7.2 billion of top-rated tax and revenue anticipation notes on Wednesday.

Texas headlines the week's slate as it prepares for a mammoth note sale while Massachusetts prepares large short-term sales of its own.

A judge's ruling on whether the U.S. government is responsible for covering Oversight Board-imposed bond losses may come in the winter.

The State Bond Commission barred the banks from upcoming Garvee bond deals, and said its action may apply to other state bond issues.

Northeast municipal bond issuance sank 11.7% in the first half of 2018 compared to a year earlier, reflecting a national trend driven by federal tax changes.

The cut has dropped from 6.6% in fiscal 2018 and 6.9% in fiscal 2017. The initial sequestration cut in fiscal 2013 was 8.7%.