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Declining tourist taxes, which support the bond-financed Orange County Convention Center's expansion, led officials to suspend the design work on the project.

As the long Labor Day holiday beckoned, munis remained mostly steady in quiet trading. Cal trades up.

The August employment report was better than anticipated, which could impact the stimulus package being negotiated in Washington, analysts say.

Moody's cited high leverage and fixed costs attributable to the city's pension and other post-employee benefit plans. Voters decide on new bonds in November.

The House and Senate have not agreed to any of the 12 spending bills that fund various federal agencies, nor have they agreed on the reauthorization of the Highway Trust Fund.

The governor cited budget and social justice benefits from a measure to legalize cannabis, which officials say could bring in $600 million of new revenues.

Daily report for September 04, 2020.

Charles Evans, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said the economy won't be back at pre-pandemic levels until near the end of 2022.

Refinitiv Lipper reported $139.364 million of muni fund inflows, the 17th week in a row of positive results, but the lowest gain since July.

Georgia Power said in its latest report for the Plant Vogtle project that more than 800 workers have contracted COVID-19, and most have recovered.

The stop-and-go 2020 legislative session left some lawmakers feeling there is unfinished business in Sacramento.

Regulators found Stifel effected 56 pairs of pre-arranged transactions and the firm did not have a supervisory system reasonably designed to catch that activity.

The short-term Municipal Liquidity Facility does not meet the city's needs, the mayor said while repeating his call for borrowing authority from New York State.

Nick Bucklin, vice president and portfolio manager at Franklin Templeton, talks with Chip Barnett about ESG investing and why municipal green bonds are an important component of an investor’s portfolio. (19 minutes)

Daily report for September 03, 2020.

The Florida State Board of Administration Finance Corp. deal was upsized by $1 billion on a day that gave muni buyers a wide variety of paper to choose from.

Local governments gain new bond capacity to offset COVID-19-related losses after Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill revised after he vetoed the original measure.

Although there was moderate growth of activity in the economy, continued volatility and uncertainty gives some cause for concern about the overall outlook.

The paper filing requirement for Form 8038-CP was a particular problem early in the pandemic because IRS paper processing centers were shut down from mid-March until sometime in June.

Briefs from the U.S. Department of Transportation and the passenger railroad argue that private activity bonds for the Florida project were allocated correctly.