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Boston think tank Pioneer Institute launched the MassAnalysis online tool that provides fiscal information about Massachusetts cities and towns.

California's Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency failed again to get approvals from a water board needed to move ahead on a five-mile extension of one of its toll roads.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services lowered its long-term rating to BBB-minus from BBB on Benton County Public Facilities Board, Ark.'s series 2010A tax-exempt lease revenue bonds issued for Benton County Charter School Organization Inc. on behalf of Arkansas Art Academy (formerly known as Benton County School of the Arts).

Chicago took a gamble by voluntarily laying out in stark terms the fiscal threats that could lead to further credit erosion and the impact on its swap and liquidity contracts, market participants said.

State and local officials see chaos ahead for highway funding if Congress doesn't quickly pass a long-term transportation bill.

Fitch Ratings last year had more positive ratings than negative ones in United States public finance for the first time since 2008.

Puerto Rico’s employment situation is getting worse or significantly better, depending on which U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey one believes.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder appointed utility executive Nick Khouri as state treasurer to replace Kevin Clinton, who is leaving to return to the private insurance sector.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and two fellow Democrats have introduced a bill that would provide $50 million in federal grants for each of fiscal years 2015-2019 to help states, local communities, and tribal governments upgrade their water and wastewater infrastructure systems.

Prices of top-rated municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session, traders, said, with yields on some maturities falling by as much as four basis points.

The Treasury Department Tuesday auctioned $40 billion of four-week bills at a 0.050% high yield, a price of 99.996111.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said it raised its ratings on Corpus Christi, Texas' senior-lien and junior-lien utility system debt one notch to AA-minus and A-plus, respectively.

The muni market on Tuesday was looking ahead to the institutional pricing of the city and county of Honolulu, Hawaii's $879 million of Series A-D tax-exempt and Series E taxable general obligation bonds.

Indicator Last Report Forecast Actual Empire State Manufacturing Feb.: 7.78 March: 8.00 March: 6.90 Industrial Production Jan.: -0.3% Feb.: +0.2% Feb.: +0.1% Capacity Utilization Jan.: 79.1 Feb.: 79.5 Feb.: 78.9 NAHB Housing Index Feb.: 55 March: 56 March: 53

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