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A phase-out of U.S.-China trade tariffs would keep the Federal Reserve on the sidelines.

Kenneth Potts, senior vice president and portfolio manager at Fiera Capital, checks in on the state of the municipal bond market. He talks about the effect of the SALT deduction on high-tax states and supply and demand factors in this podcast recorded in September. Chip Barnett hosts.

Illinois’ competitive $750 million general obligation issue proved an easy sell with tight cover bids.

Tuesday's results were led by the city of Scottsdale, which won voter authorization for $319 million of bonds.

Investors downed a deluge of munis in what so far is living up to the billing of the busiest week of the year.

Proposition CC, which would have allowed the state to retain revenues above a 27-year-old formula, was defeated.

Bitvore has added sentiment scoring for municipal obligors, allowing users to glean leading indicators of performance from unstructured data sources in real time.

Schools, public transit and medical research are among the beneficiaries of successful bond measures Tuesday in the Lone Star State.

“We see some calming of seas,” said Beth Ann Bovino, chief U.S. economist and managing director at S&P Global Ratings, who offered those explanations as part of her latest take on the U.S. economic outlook.

New York City voters take the first step to include a formal rainy day fund in the budget process.

Nonfarm productivity slipped, the Labor Department reported Wednesday, a day when comments from Fed presidents suggested cuts are done for now.

Transportation Secretary James Trogdon says Dale Folwell's allegations of overspending are unsupported.

The SEC brought four civil lawsuits and 10 stand-alone administrative proceedings, according to its annual report released Wednesday.

Paige Cognetti will fill out the term of Bill Courtright, who resigned and pleaded guilty to corruption charges.

The Financial Industry Regulatory announced the action Wednesday, saying it stemmed from the firms' supervisory failures.

Taxable municipal issuance leapt to record levels in 2019, but its exponential surge in the past three months may signal an even larger boom on the horizon.

Gov. Wanda Vázquez's bill aims to prevent the commonwealth from pursuing debt practices that have gotten it into trouble.

Voters were willing to spend, approving most of the largest bond issues before them.

Moody's Investors Service upgraded $1.2 billion of general obligation bonds to Aa1 from Aa2.

The unfunded liabilities rose to $137 billion in fiscal 2019 from $134 billion, and the state will have to contribute $600 million more in fiscal 2021.