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The RTA, which oversees three big Chicago-area transit agencies, is among the organizations that wants the state government to pass a long-awaited capital bill.

The Treasury Department announced its auction closing schedule for the holiday weeks.

The delay in Washington means state and local budget planners lack critical federal inputs until early next year.

Dan White of Moody’s Analytics discusses public policy responses to the Great Recession and how municipalities can best prepare themselves for the next recession, which looks likely to hit in the next three to four years. Chip Barnett hosts.

Michael J. Mitchell, a 40-year veteran of public finance law, is remembered as a mentor.

November housing starts rose by 3.2% to a 1.256 million annual rate, according to data released Tuesday by the Commerce Department.

New York service sector activity “expanded slightly” in December, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Business Leaders Survey.

A federal judge in Texas ruled that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional, which would affect nonprofit hospital credits if it withstands appeal.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board is establishing a formal Academic Program as part of its mission to support academic and other researchers.

Market participants will focus on reading the tea leaves of the Fed statement Wednesday.

Revenues have exceeded expectations for both the month and the fiscal year.

Reps. Brian Mast and Bill Posey asked Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao not to extend a Dec. 31 deadline to issue private activity bonds.

Bitvore Corp. is offering analysts and portfolio managers free updates on the impact of fires, hurricanes, and earthquakes.

RBC Capital Markets hired Paul Sheldon, founder of the advisory firm S L Capital Strategies, as a managing director in the municipal finance student loan group.

The municipal bond market will see a week of meager issuance, as all eyes are on the Federal Open Market Committee and its upcoming meeting.

While bond market prognosticators are confident the Federal Open Market Committee will raise the fed funds rate target by 25 basis points this week, they remain less certain on the outlook for 2019.

Dallas Area Rapid Transit will finance a 26-mile commuter rail line to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport with a $908 million RRIF loan.

Builders’ confidence in the market for new single-family homes fell in December as affordability issues remain.

The municipal bond market winds down the year by seeing only $1 billion of new issues slated to price this week. It’s a far cry from last December, which saw a mad rush to market ahead of the new tax laws.

Business activity “continued to expand, though growth was noticeably slower than in recent months,” the December Empire State Manufacturing Survey suggested.