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Almost all of the 12 Federal Reserve districts reported “modest to moderate gains” in economic activity at the start of 2018, a Federal Reserve survey showed.

The Sales Tax Securitization Corp.’s highly anticipated bond sale has been delayed until at least next week due to market conditions, Chicago officials said.

Municipal bond buyers are waiting to see details on the high-rated, but high-yielding sales tax securitization coming from Chicago on Wednesday.

Gov. Rick Scott has doubled the chances that voters will decide if a supermajority vote will be required for the Legislature to raise new revenue.

The Senate Banking Committee had approved Powell already in December, but a revote was necessary after the Senate adjourned for the year without finalizing his confirmation.

Builders’ confidence in the market for new single-family homes slipped as the National Association of Home Builders' housing market index fell to 72.

Municipal bond buyers will focus on the high-rated but high-yielding sales tax securitization deal coming from Chicago on Wednesday.

House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello said he would hold hearings on the $83 million package.

Industrial production grew 0.9% in December, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday.

The New York region's service sector activity "continued to grow at a solid pace," according to the January Business Leaders Survey.

New York's governor unveiled a $168 billion spending proposal for the 2019 fiscal year during his annual budget address.

Two former Texas school finance administrators, Oscar Cardenas and Steve Murray, joined Baird's public finance team.

The City Council unanimously to extend the deadline for the filing of the mayor’s preliminary Fiscal 2019 budget by two weeks to Feb. 1 as city officials digested state budget plans announced Tuesday.

The municipal bond market on Tuesday priced the first of the week’s big new issues, before buyers turned their focus to the high-rated, but high-yielding sales tax securitization coming from Chicago on Wednesday.

Phil Murphy inherits a state government that was downgraded 11 times under predecessor Chris Christie.

The municipal bond market saw the first of the week’s big new issues price in the primary. Buyers will see about $3.35 billion of new deals hit the screens this week, with most of the volume coming on Wednesday and Thursday.

Chicago’s Sales Tax Securitization Corp. returns to the municipal bond market this week, offering high-yielding, high-rated paper to buyers hungry for supply.

Consumers’ inflation expectations gained, according to the October Survey of Consumer Expectations, released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Tuesday.

Moody's shifted the outlook on its A3 rating forSpringfield, Illinois, to negative.

Municipal bond buyers and traders expect $2.36 billion of negotiated deals and $986.4 million of competitive sales.