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The governor has formed an Office of Climate Action and the Green Economy, while committing $100 million for clean-energy initiatives that include vehicle electrification.

Daily report for February 18, 2021.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker's says potential federal funding relief would go first to pay down short-term debts likes its Federal Reserve borrowing and the state's bill backlog.

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren said he doesn’t expect to see sustained 2% inflation for the next two years so long as U.S. unemployment remains high.

The municipal secondary gave way to higher-yields and triple-A benchmarks rose two to five basis points. U.S. Treasuries pared back Tuesday's losses, even on the heels of better economic data.

The consequences of not passing infrastructure legislation in the next few months may be dire.

The operating environment is dramatically different than it was pre-pandemic and presents all-new challenges for financial institutions. Tried-and-true strategies that led to high performance for many years are no longer going to be successful. Join Bonnie McGeer, Executive Editor of American Banker, and Claude Hanley, Partner at Capital Performance Group, as they highlight important trends and comb through data from top-performing banks across the country for insights that will help regional and community financial institutions thrive in 2021. Executives will learn what metrics will be most critical to focus on to maintain high performance going forward.

Federal Reserve officials did not see the conditions for reducing their massive asset-purchase program being met for “some time” at their January policy meeting, a record of the gathering showed.

Puerto Rico private sector employment had an even more serious contraction in 2020 on the island than it did in the United States as a whole.

The Federal Transit Administration rescinded a Trump administration policy that refused to count as a local cost-share the payments by New York and New Jersey on a proposed federal loan.

"We need to make realistic assumptions regarding our ability to achieve expected returns in the future," said North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell.

Illinois will square off with lawyers representing John Tillman next month in his 2019 case seeking to void bonds issued to fund pensions and pay down bills.

Federal Reserve officials said the economy continues to be disrupted by the pandemic with one regional central bank chief dismissing the threat that inflation could get out of hand.

Dealer groups say changes to FINRA rules should be cohesive with municipal rules.

Daily report for February 17, 2021.

Koster, who came over from Piper Sandler, worked as lead or sole manager on $6 billion in public finance deals.

With the U.S. Treasury sell off, municipal to UST ratios fell below 55% in 10-years.

Indiana, Michigan and Ohio budget proposals benefit from a revenue picture that is more optimistic than feared earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic.

The judges should rule soon on insurer suits seeking monetary compensation against major bond underwriters.

S&P says Trinity's efforts to shed the fiscally struggling Mercy poses benefits and risks but the hospital is a small piece of the national not-for-profit's overall portfolio.