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Transportation Department has $850 million of competitive grants available for infrastructure projects that improve freight shipments.

A New York audit firm and one of its senior partners have agreed to pay a combined $555,000 and take a number of corrective actions to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that they issued fraudulent audit reports in connection with municipal bond offerings from the town of Ramapo, N.Y.

Municipal market participants will have to wait for Tuesday for any treats, as an estimated $9 billion of issuance starts to flow.

Monthly municipal bond volume surged to a three-decade high in October, as issuers rushed to take advantage of near-record low interest rates and get deals done before the presidential election.

Texas voters are deciding $4.76 billion of local bond proposals in the Nov. 8 election.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board plans to amend its proposal that would require dealers to disclose their markups and markdowns in principal trades with retail customers.

Revenue constraints from a limit on tax levy growth is a credit negative for several Massachusetts localities, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Tender rates for the Treasury Department's latest 91-day and 182-day discount bills were higher, as the three-months incurred a 0.350% high rate, up from 0.340% the prior week, and the six-months incurred a 0.500% high rate, up from 0.475% the week before.

Illinois’ state capital took a two-notch credit blow over its growing pension burden.

The Treasury Department said Monday it will sell $55 billion of four-week discount bills Tuesday.

Texas factory activity, as measured by the production index, "activity increased again in October," according to the monthly Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, released Monday.

There will be few howls Monday, with municipal market participants waiting for treats on Tuesday, as issuance from the estimated $9 billion week will start to flow in.

Indicator Last Report Forecast Actual Personal Income Aug.: +0.2% Sept.: +0.4% Sept.: +03% Consumption Aug.: -0.1% Sept.: +0.5% Sept.: +0.5% Core PCE Price Index Aug.: +0.1% Sept.: +0.1% Sept.: +0.1% Chicago PMI Sept.: 54.2 Oct.: 54.0 Oct.: 50.6

The Chicago Purchasing Managers' Business Barometer fell to 50.6 in October from 54.2 in September, "suggesting economic activity in the US lost some momentum having picked up in Q3," the National Association of Purchasing Management-Chicago said Friday.

The seasonally adjusted Milwaukee Report on Business was at 47.46 in October, the Institute for Supply Management-Milwaukee reported Monday.

The Midwest Economy Index fell to negative 0.10 in September from a revised negative 0.08 in August, first reported as negative 0.04, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago said Monday.

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