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Mayor Bill de Blasio raised both the goal for contract awards to minority and women owned businesses and the amount the firms can borrow.

The largest operator renewed its lease with the San Francisco Bay Area port.

Economic development and infrastructure were the most mentioned issues by mayors in their annual states of the city addresses.

The legislation would empower the state treasurer to buy up to $2 billion in vouchers for bills the state has not paid.

Municipals participated in a safe-haven trade on Wednesday following the Treasury-led rally on Tuesday.

The Big Island's tourism-driven economy is likely to experience short-term shocks, Fitch Ratings said.

State-owned utility Santee Cooper received two subpoenas that appear to focus on a secret assessment report about the foundering project.

Investors, already frustrated with the lack of progress since PROMESA was passed, face at least another two years before most debt payments will resume.

Eric Greitens hands the reins of state government over to his lieutenant governor Friday.

Municipal bonds on Wednesday added on to the gains made during Tuesday’s rally.

Texas service sector activity “accelerated sharply in May,” according to business executives responding to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas' Texas Service Sector Outlook Survey.

About 4,699,500 online job postings appeared on leading internet job boards in May, a decrease of 51,000 from April, the Conference Board reported Wednesday.

The 13-year-old Real-Time Transaction Reporting System has undergone a three-year re-engineering process.

Private-sector employment increased by 178,000 in May, on a seasonally adjusted basis, ADP estimated Wednesday.

What's in the next Illinois budget is more important to S&P Global Ratings than whether it is passed soon.

Scott Evans, chief investment officer of New York City’s $194 billion of pension funds, will step down at the end of the fiscal year June 29.

The county is receiving only a very small cut of the revenue it projected from the video gambling terminal deal.

Municipal bond investors reacted cautiously to the rally in Treasurys as they looked for confirmation that the new yield levels are here to stay.

Intercontinental Exchange agreed to buy TMC Bonds for $685 million in cash just eight days after IHS Markit's deal to buy Ipreo.

Currently at least 33 states provide 113 different tax credits that are already federally deductible.