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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.

A state economist reviewed a litany of problems lawmakers will face developing the state budget.

The holiday season kicks off for the municipal bond market as new issue supply slows to a crawl while the year winds down.

Atlantic City casino revenue was up 20% year-over-year in November.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel says his pension package offers a path to further stabilize city employees' pensions without burdening taxpayers.

Analyst Marc Joffe says bulk downloading should be free on EMMA.

As the end of the year approaches, new issue supply slows down.

Moody's underscored the sense of uncertainty facing the Metropolitan Transportation Authority by dropping its outlook to negative.

A school district in upstate New York missed a bond payment last month because of a snow day.

The value of business inventories in October was up 0.6% from September.

Total industrial production, which also includes mines and utilities, increased 0.6% after a 0.2% drop in October.

Outstanding government receivables remain a constraining factor to the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority's credit profile after it refinanced two notes.

November retail sales were up 0.2% in the month, slightly above analysts’ projections for a 0.1% gain.

In the week ended Dec. 13, the weekly average yield to maturity of the Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index, which is based on 40 long-term bond prices, fell to 4.13% from 4.15% last week.

Hilltop Securities chairman Hill Feinberg will hand over his title as president and chief executive to Piper Jaffray banker Bradley Winges.

Former longtime New York City budget veteran Mark Page, who was tapped to help Long Island’s Nassau County tackle mounting tax settlement debt, is retiring at the of the year.

Market data shows the trading gap between A-rated and BBB-rated corporate bonds has widened in volume.