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Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari said he’s “sympathetic” to the need to press China to engage in fair trade, yet emphasized it’s too soon to assess the full impact of the U.S.-China trade spat on the economy.

The Federal Reserve should continue gradually raising interest rates if data on consumer prices available by the central bank’s mid-June policy meeting indicate inflation will soon reach the 2% target, Chicago Fed President Charles Evans said.

The board may choose to approve its own version of the plan by April 20, setting up a legal and political fight for control of the Puerto Rico government.

Weekly municipal market volume is expected to sink back below $5 billion in the coming week, making it harder for investors to price bonds.

Employers in New York also are allowed to implement a 5% payroll tax as a way of paying some of their employees’ state income taxes.

Illinois spreads are rising as the state plots its first sale of 2018 for May.

Atlantic City's state overseer sees a “major” breakthrough following a $49 million bond sale.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s planned $10 billion redevelopment of John F. Kennedy International Airport is beginning to take shape.

Moody's threw cold water on Chicago's position that O'Hare's ratings can withstand new terminal debt.

Traders noted some caution in the muni market ahead of Friday’s release of the March unemployment report.

The city's issuer rating from Moody's Investors Service remains mired in speculative-grade territory.

The legislation would determine the fate of the state-owned utility formally known as the South Carolina Public Service Authority.

The three islands of the USVI have received more than $1 billion in federal disaster assistance through March 27, according to FEMA spokesman Manuel Broussard.

Municipals were trading in sympathy with Treasuries on Thursday morning as the market remained quiet as it prepared for the week’s end.

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic sees a buoyant U.S. economy lifting inflation to the central bank’s 2% target “sometime in the next quarter or two” but said he doesn’t think this should prompt the central bank to choke off the expansion.

The number of people being pushed into homelessness continues to outpace efforts to help them.

Bill Glasgall, senior vice president at the Volcker Alliance, and Sarah Swanbeck, from the University of California at Berkeley, discuss how the state of California became the comeback kid in finances. What is the state doing right with its budget? Where do its finances need improvement? And what’s the outlook for the state going forward? Chip Barnett hosts.

The vote came as Gov. Rossello said his fiscal plan will not accede to board demands.

BlackRock's Peter Hayes says that municipal bond performance in the first quarter was clearly hurt by tax reform.

It's important and constructive to talk about these kinds of alternatives to advance refundings, market participants said.