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The Treasury Department sold $11 billion of inflation-indexed 9-year 8-month TIPs at a 0.512% high yield, an adjusted price of 99.585502, with a 3/8% coupon.

The Chicago Board of Education made a second run at the primary market on Thursday as it returned to offer $1.03 billion of general obligation bonds to muni buyers.

Declining funding for Colorado's retirement accounts led S&P global ratings to revise the state's outlook to negative.

Treasurer Denise Nappier sees the just-passed spending plan as a roadblock to full funding.

UBS has now brought in 37 municipal professionals since April, when it said it was re-entering the public finance business to tap increased demand amid rising interest rates.

The Treasury Department said Thursday it will auction $42 billion 90-day bills and $36 billion 181-day discount bills Monday.

The 12-cent-per-gallon fuel tax increase took effect Nov. 1.

The Chicago Board of Education makes a second run at the primary market on Thursday as it returns to offer $857 million of general obligation bonds to muni buyers.

Builders’ confidence in the market for new single-family homes increased.

Industrial production grew 0.9% in October, the Federal Reserve reported Thursday.

Changing demographics will be a challenge for policymakers, who will have to constantly evaluate and adapt, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Loretta Mester said Thursday.

The region's manufacturing sector expanded in November, at a slower pace than in October.

The New York region's service sector activity "expanded at a robust pace," according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's November Business Leaders Survey, released Thursday.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Nydia Velázquez called for the Oversight Board to eliminate all of Puerto Rico’s public sector debt.

It may take 60 votes in the Senate to decide if the tax bill is subject to the PAYGO Act.

The plan is up from the previously announced 200,000 homes.

Cities and states on the the borders are vulnerable to falling tax receipts amid protectionist rhetoric that threatens NAFTA, Fitch Ratings said.

The Moody's downgrade comes amid large losses and higher capital spending.

Gradually raising interest rates remains appropriate, including a 25 basis point increase in December, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren said.

The Illinois Tollway's $300 million deal and the first part of the Chicago Board of Education’s $922 million bond offering came to market on Wednesday. In secondary trading, municipals were stronger on the day.