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Louisville, Ky., issuers plan to bring $550.9 million of bonds to the market this month and in November offering investors a variety of high-grade paper.

Chicago is promoting O’Hare International Airport’s recent growth spurt, improved credit, and conservative debt portfolio as it preps a $2 billion issue that will mark the city’s largest deal ever.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said it raised its long-term rating and underlying rating to AA-minus from A-plus on Atlanta, Ga.'s airport general revenue bonds and hybrid passenger facility charge (PFC) subordinate-lien bonds, issued on behalf of Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Standard & Poor's revised its outlook to negative from stable on Live Oak School District, Calif. general obligation bonds.

Construction costs for the Bayonne Bridge “Raise the Roadway” project have increased and the projected completion is now two years behind schedule, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced.

Congressional negotiations over new revenues to support a multiyear highway bill could falter over push for higher annual transportation funding.

New York State’s fourth quarter municipal bond issuance will be slightly down compared to the year ago period, according to a tentative schedule released by Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

An old-fashioned Steel City brawl has erupted between Pittsburgh and its financial overseer over gaming revenue.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's P3 office is accepting unsolicited proposals for transportation projects from the private sector.

In the first quarter of the Kansas fiscal year ended Sept. 30, revenues of $1.35 billion were $42.5 million or about 3% below projections, according to state Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan.

Six advocacy groups are urging two key Senate Republicans to keep Congress from providing Puerto Rico with access to Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection.

Normalization of interest rates should begin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard repeated Friday.

Hillview, Ky.’s largest creditor, Truck America LLC, said Thursday that the city may not be eligible for bankruptcy because the state’s law is invalid.

Prices of top-rated municipal bonds were stronger with Treasuries at midday, traders said, after the release of a disappointing jobs report. Equities dropped after the release of September’s weaker-than-expected data.

Atlantic City Mayor Donald Guardian wants to transform his city beyond its longtime reputation as a gambling hub.

A lengthy tax relief and job creation bill recently introduced in the House would exempt private-activity bonds issued from 2015 through 2018 from the alternative minimum tax, repeal sequestration, and create an infrastructure bank. But it also would cap the value of the municipal bond tax exemption at 28%.

New orders for manufactured goods decreased 1.7% in August, after gaining a revised 0.2% in July, first reported as a 0.4% increase, the Commerce Department reported Friday.

Prices of top-rated municipal bonds were stronger with Treasuries in early action, traders said, after the release of a disappointing jobs report.

New York City business activity “contracted for the first time in eight months,” in September, as the current business conditions index declined to 44.5, from 51.1 in August, the Institute for Supply Management-New York’s Report on Business index, released Friday, indicated.

U.S. inflationary pressures were down in September, as the U.S. future inflation gauge fell to 101.0 from an unrevised August 101.9 reading, according to data released Friday morning by the Economic Cycle Research Institute.