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The municipal bond market will feel like it’s still on vacation next week as supply hovers around holiday week type levels.

Stacey M. Tevlin, an associate director of the Federal Reserve Board’s Division of Research and Statistics, will be promoted to director effective Feb. 4, the Fed announced Friday.

As the board delayed a vote on fare and toll increases, transit funding, performance metrics and the L-train tunnel project chaos permeated discussion.

The December Chicago Business Barometer was revised down to 63.8 from 65.4 previously, following the annual seasonal adjustments.

Despite rising revenues, Kansas will still need to make adjustments to its budget because of rising demands, S&P Global Ratings says.

Recent upheaval in senior management at Michigan State University won’t impact the timeline to sell bonds to fund sex-abuse settlements.

In the week ended Jan. 24, the weekly average yield to maturity of the Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index, which is based on 40 long-term bond prices, rose to 4.11% from 4.09% last week.

Municipal bonds finished mostly stronger on Thursday as deals from issuers in Connecticut and New Jersey dominated action.

Rep. John Yarmuth of Kentucky wants to end automatic across-the-board budget cuts that include a reduction in the subsidy for direct-pay Build America Bonds.

A continuing disclosure agreement debuted in documents for the state's advance refunding of Build America Bonds.

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James J. Prendergast, 86, of Villanova, a municipal bond lawyer and a supporter of Catholic causes, died Saturday, Jan. 19, of respiratory failure at Bryn Mawr Hospital.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board will begin preliminary conversations about SEC Chair Jay Clayton's disclosure comments.

The seat of Niagara County was raised to A3 by Moody's Investors Service.

Donald Trump wants nominees for two open Federal Reserve Board seats who are sympathetic to his view that strong economic growth doesn’t risk inflation.

Gov. Ricardo Rosselló is offering relief to the 4.500 federal employees in Puerto Rico whose paychecks have stopped coming.

Public finance attorneys Uyen Poh and Stephanie Leibe are among 46 lawyers Norton Rose Fulbright promoted to partner.

The county school superintendent appointed a fiscal advisory team to help Los Angeles Unified close a structural deficit.

Municipal bonds were mostly stronger as action in the primary slowed.

Respondents to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's monthly manufacturing survey reported slower growth in January, while expectations grew.