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A drop in fuel consumption prompted New Jersey to raise its gas tax, above the levels of New York, whose residents took advantage of lower prices and filled up before exiting the state when driving through.

The transaction would affect about 54% of the government's outstanding bond debt.

The Fed will have to "pivot from stabilization to accommodation" during the pandemic, Fed governor says.

Both the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and the American Road and Transportation Builders Association among other groups plan to ask Congress to extend existing highway funding for a year.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's administration is weighing more debt refinancing, layoffs and tax hikes to fully close the budget gap

How will competing demand and supply shocks will influence inflation, the value of our currency and our prominence on the international stage?

As a director in public finance, Maura Davalos will focus on FHA-insured healthcare financings; she will be based in Jacksonville, Florida.

Adie Tomer, a fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, talks with Sarah Wynn on the hopes for a future infrastructure bill and what form it could take before and after the November elections. (19 minutes)

Daily report for September 01, 2020.

Price guidance was issued on California's $2.4 billion GO deal as the State of New York Mortgage Agency got ready for its first social bond issue as the ESG muni market expands.

The California Housing Finance Agency made its first use of a program that enables it to issue bonds beyond its yearly private activity bond cap.

Municipal bond volume kept rolling in August, producing the second-highest volume for the month in the past decade, marking the third consecutive month this year of greater-than $40 billion.

St. Louis and Indianapolis are both eyeing debt financings to expand their convention centers.

The refinancings will ease near-term debt service pressures as pledged tax revenue tumbles and convention center business remains halted with uncertain near-term prospects.

Rep. Richard Neal was the lead architect of the muni-friendly provisions in the Moving Forward Act which passed the House in July.

The pace of recovery will not only be fragmented, but will take a lot longer than originally thought, according to Raphael Bostic, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta president.

About 30 million Americans risk being evicted in coming months because they can’t pay rent, one report says.

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida left open the possibility of employing Treasury yield caps at some point in the future, though he indicated it’s not likely now and reiterated the central bank’s rejection of negative interest rates.

There isn’t any urgency for the Federal Reserve to offer more clarity on how long it will hold interest rates near zero at the moment because investors already understand the central bank won’t be tightening for a while, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said.

The university and its health system are experiencing the biggest shortfalls ever, president Thomas Katsouleas told Connecticut lawmakers.