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The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board is making its trade data available through a research platform to individuals associated with more than 400 institutions around the world, but without the controversial anonymous dealer identifiers in a proposed new product still under development.

Puerto Rico's Senate is set to approve a bill Tuesday that would allow the governor to retain the right to declare debt payment moratoriums on virtually all of the island's debt, according to the Senate's leader.

The Illinois Regional Transportation Authority will take bids Tuesday on $150 million of working cash notes that help the agency manage cash flow amid ongoing state aid payment delays.

New Jersey Transit is back to the drawing board looking for someone to lead the nation's third-busiest public transportation system after former Amtrak chief operating officer William Crosbie opted not to take the executive director post just days before his scheduled start date.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel nominated Erin Keane, the city’s first deputy comptroller, to replace Comptroller Dan Widawsky.

Kentucky’s Attorney General Andy Beshear has asked the Executive Branch Ethics Commission to probe improprieties of public corruption alleged by Gov. Matt Bevin.

Top quality municipal bonds were steady to weaker on Monday, according to traders, who were preparing for another healthy slate of new issues come to market.

A bipartisan bill introduced in the House would expand the ways in which Indian tribes can issue tax-exempt bonds and put them more on par with state and local governments under the federal tax law.

Five days after Kansas lowered its revenue estimates for the current and coming fiscal year, Standard & Poor's placed the state's AA rating on its watch list for a possible downgrade.

The recent decision by the California State Teachers’ Retirement System to change its investment policy and reduce expected asset return volatility, is credit positive for California and its school districts , Moody's Investors Service said.

The Connecticut Housing Finance Authority intends to offer $189 million in tax-exempt bonds to finance single-family mortgages.

Locke Lord LLP has hired tax specialist Todd Cooper to bolster its 25-member national public finance practice.

Congested urban highways in the U.S. add unnecessary costs to truckers as drivers spend long hours in traffic bottlenecks.

Fitch Ratings has downgraded the rating on the $1.185 billion of Midwestern disaster area revenue bonds issued by the Iowa Finance Authority on behalf of Iowa Fertilizer Company LLC (IFCo) to B-plus from BB-minus.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said it has placed its AA issuer credit rating (ICR) and its AA-minus appropriation secured ratings on the state of Kansas on CreditWatch with negative implications.

The Treasury Department Tuesday auctioned $26 billion of two-year notes with a 3/4% coupon at a 0.842% yield, a price of 99.818393.