Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Muni volume gets a boost during the Thanksgiving holiday week as one of the nation's biggest issuers comes to market with a type of deal that may be banned after this year under pending tax reform legislation.

New York's MTA is pouring its capital into projects that don't reflect population growth, says a Manhattan Institute report.

Although New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority has invested more than $120 billion in capital improvements since 1982, the pace of investment has not kept up with the need.

The new system would feature enhanced technology and integrate across all the authority's subway, bus and commuter rail units.

Municipal bonds were weaker at mid-session, according to traders, who are looking ahead to the next week's $10 billion new issue slate, which will be dominated by Illinois's $4.5 billion general obligation bond offering.

Municipals are little changed in early activity as the market gets ready to take on the biggest deal of the year — next week’s $4.5 billion Illinois general obligation bond offering.

Municipals finished mixed in secondary trading on Thursday as a spate of transportation deals hit traders' screens.

Municipals were mixed in secondary trading at midday as the primary saw several big transportation deals hit the screens.

New York will begin testing self-driving cars early next year — with the first experiments set to be held in Manhattan.

Municipal bond buyers will be seeing almost $5 billion of bonds hit the market on Tuesday, led by big sales from California and Illinois.