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The municipal market appears to be shifting away from its traditional retail-dominated status, which has implications for regulatory policy that's largely aimed at protecting the retail investor.

Municipal traders said the market was slightly firmer on Tuesday, though a lack of new supply was still curtailing opportunity for investors.

The report illustrates how federal, state and local laws must be changed if the Supreme Court rules in favor of South Dakota and against Wayfair Inc. in an online sales tax case.

Borrowing plans cleared the Finance Committee after minority aldermen complained about diversity.

Hartford's council authorized an agreement for the state to pay the city's debt over two decades while accepting state oversight.

Gerrard Bushell, CEO and president of the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York, brings us up to speed on how new federal tax changes are impacting one of the nation’s largest municipal bond issuers. Andrew Coen hosts.

Municipal bond buyers are seeing some supply hit the market on Tuesday as they look ahead to next week for the biggest deal of the year to date.

Moody's boosted the university to A1, an event that may have been overshadowed by the men's basketball team's Final Four run.

As muni investors looked ahead to another week of limited supply, a report from BlackRock recommended taking a flexible strategy.

The latest proposed fiscal plan may allow up to 29.4% of debt to be paid through fiscal year 2023.

The city has underfunded pensions and plans to increase spending to support its school district.

Some of the oomph for multifamily housing bonds comes from additional federal funding for public housing agencies which are partners in these bond deals while the remainder comes from programmatic changes in the law.

Securities industry profits surged in 2017, as the the bonus pool hit an estimated $31.4 billion, according to an New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

The municipal bond market on Monday is eyeing this week's small holiday calendar of new issues, which is dominated by taxable deals.

Texas factory activity, as measured by the production index, “continued to expand in March, albeit at a markedly slower pace than last month.”

The Chicago Fed National Activity Index for February increased to 0.88 from a downwardly revised 0.02 in January.

The Federal Reserve is facing a backlash over its lack of diversity in key positions after it emerged this weekend that John Williams, the current president of the San Francisco regional branch, is a front-runner to succeed William Dudley as head of the powerful New York Fed.

The credit unions say that Puerto Rico used fraud and pressure to get them to buy the government bonds.

Municipals will see yet another week of sub-$4 billion issuance, as taxables take the top spot on the calendar.

Two regional Federal Reserve bank presidents said they favor raising interest rates twice more this year following a hike this week, but were open to shifting their views if the outlook warranted a different policy approach.