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More than 300 market participants, including 100 investors, attended the city's annual conference Friday to hear from Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Municipal bond supply will keep on keeping on this week, continuing a boom that started August.

After spearheading large capital projects at New York State’s nonprofit entities, Dr. Gerrard Bushell is set to tackle a $7 billion infrastructure initiative at one of the world’s major airports.

Counting on transaction participants to file the UCC is like expecting the fox to guard the chicken coop.

The Florida House of Representatives wants another chance to argue that its law eliminating the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority is legal.

The U.S. economy is growing slower than it has in the past couple of years, and conditions may get worse in the next few quarters, according to Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard.

Downtown Dallas has seen a revival in recent years with residential conversions and more pedestrian-friendly design paid for with tax-increment financing.

Fiona Ma will give the keynote at the Bond Buyer's California Public Finance conference. Elsewhere, the market is gearing up for another interesting slate.

The Connecticut Housing Finance Authority will price the housing mortgage finance program bonds through negotiation.

The primary market was somewhat stagnant after the FOMC but things should revert back how they were before — with most deals getting put away quickly.

Bank holdings in municipal securities continue to decline, as retail investors and mutual funds increase their holdings.

The household employment survey showed good economic news, while other measures were mixed.

Moody’s Investors Service citied continued operational and performance improvements for the upgrade to Baa1.

Bipartisan legislation to streamline TIFIA has been introduced in Congress by two Texans.

States and cities have begun to factor climate risk into budgetary and other planning.

The Federal Reserve took center stage again Friday, with two presidents explaining why they dissented at the latest meeting and Vice Chair Richard Clarida terming it “healthy” debate.

Muni vet Dana Villanova has joined Kestrel Verifiers as director of business development.