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With flooding from Hurricane Harvey still fresh in voters' minds, officials in Texas' largest county see an urgent need for a flood-control proposal.

Pending home sales gained 3.1% to an index reading of 107.5 in February, from a downwardly revised 5.0% decline to 104.3 in January.

Optimism that the #MeToo movement will have a positive influence is high among bankers who participated in a recent survey on sexual harassment. But there is also concern that it could lead to gender discrimination in hiring and mentoring.

The National Association of State Treasurers is using infrastructure finance as an argument to urge lawmakers to pass legislation reclassifying some munis as high-quality liquid assets.

A deal in August would have allowed debt holders to get up to 75% of par value.

Moody's took action on four Ohio colleges, which still benefit from a state enhancement program that Moody’s affirmed at Aa2.

State government credit support will bring the junk-rated city's coming taxable bond sale up to investment grade.

The municipal market appears to be shifting away from its traditional retail-dominated status, which has implications for regulatory policy that's largely aimed at protecting the retail investor.

Municipal traders said the market was slightly firmer on Tuesday, though a lack of new supply was still curtailing opportunity for investors.

The report illustrates how federal, state and local laws must be changed if the Supreme Court rules in favor of South Dakota and against Wayfair Inc. in an online sales tax case.

Borrowing plans cleared the Finance Committee after minority aldermen complained about diversity.

Hartford's council authorized an agreement for the state to pay the city's debt over two decades while accepting state oversight.

Gerrard Bushell, CEO and president of the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York, brings us up to speed on how new federal tax changes are impacting one of the nation’s largest municipal bond issuers. Andrew Coen hosts.

Municipal bond buyers are seeing some supply hit the market on Tuesday as they look ahead to next week for the biggest deal of the year to date.

Texas service sector activity “activity picked up in March,” according to business executives responding to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas' Texas Service Sector Outlook Survey, as the revenue index increased to 19.3 from 13.2.

Let’s allow public agencies to issue advance refunding bonds provided they pay the U.S. Treasury an amount equal to the forgone federal income tax revenue.

The consumer confidence index decreased to 127.7 in March from a revised 130.0 last month, The Conference Board reported Tuesday.

Service sector companies “expanded moderately in March,” according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond service-sector activity survey, released Tuesday.

Manufacturing growth in the central Atlantic region was “expanded at a slower pace in March.”

Home prices rose 6.2% on an annual basis in January, not seasonally adjusted, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index, released Tuesday.