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The group plans to sell roughly $1 billion of bonds, with a mix of btax-exempt and taxable debt.

A state fiscal monitoring board will consider for the first time in its 17-year history imposing spending cuts to the county’s budget.

While money on hand was better than expected, the island's financial advisory authority warned that expenditures will worsen.

With rates trending higher, the county still hopes an advance refunding will save water and sewer ratepayers $68 million.

The possibility of the municipal market losing both advance refundings and private activity bonds brought a spike in issuance that's likely to extend into December.

The year-end deadlines built into the GOP tax bills guarantee long hours in December for those putting together deals before Jan. 1.

Billions of dollars of new paper hit on the market on Thursday, as yields began moving down for the first time this week.

Congress should look to municipal experts to make the case for revenue triggers as a way to allay concern that tax cuts will necessitate spending reductions.

With ever-changing rules and regulations making an advisor's job harder, 280 CapMarkets launched with the goal of not only saving an advisor's time but making the job easier. 280's Gurinder Ahluwalia and Jason Ware sit down to discuss how technology allows both institutions and issuers to bring different types of value to the table that wasn't necessarily there before. Hosted by Aaron Weitzman.

The Regional Plan Association recommends congestion pricing, infrastructure banks, public benefit corporations, a regional rail system and an end to 24-hour New York subway service.

The Treasury Department said Thursday it will auction $42 billion 91-day bills and $36 billion 182-day discount bills Monday.

This busy week will end with a bang, as four of the five largest deals are set to price on Thursday.

House Ways and Means Committee Chair Kevin Brady said the private-activity bond provision was included in the House tax bill so lawmakers would have more time to discuss these bonds.

The seasonally adjusted Milwaukee Report on Business decreased to 59.62 in November from 63.61 in October.

The Midwest Economy Index remained at a revised negative 0.12 in October, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago said Thursday.

Marvin Goodfriend, a noted economist and former Richmond Fed official, was tapped to fill one of three vacancies on the Fed board.

California lawmakers are pushing Republican leaders to restore the federal deduction for state and local income taxes in the final tax bill.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel said there would be no taxpayer funding.

A tribal government specialist has replaced Allyson Belsome as head of the group responsible for muni bond audits.

The proposed ballot initiative would make Proposition 13 property tax breaks portable.