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John Barton, national Department of Transportation sector leader at HNTB, discusses how President Donald Trump’s steel tariff policy is slowing down transportation construction projects and why there has been lack of progress from the White House on a promised infrastructure bill. Andrew Coen hosts.

Texas service sector activity continued to expand in September, according the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

The consumer confidence index rose to 137.9 in October from a revised 135.3 in September.

The municipal bond industry has been following the rest of Wall Street down the path to a cold world of statistics driven by algorithms and various formulas to try to perfect an imperfect product.

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index reported a 5.8% annual gain in August, down from 6.0% in July.

The backloaded maturity schedule of the debt brings comparisons to the city's supposedly abandoned "scoop-and-toss" practices.

Moody's Investors Service cut the outlook for the system, already rated at junk Ba1.

The pilot program began in May, but was not officially announced by the IRS until last week.

Nineteen deals on the schedule are $100 million or larger, including the $1.3 billion Chicago securitization transaction.

Three of four economic measures improved in September from August.

The first meeting for several new board members included discussions with other regulators and groups, the MSRB said Monday.

For the first time since the central bank introduced its 2% inflation objective in 2012, both the headline and core measures of year-on-year price moves hit their target on the nose last month.

School districts again dominate November's local bond questions, but some but cities and counties are offering large debt proposals.

The municipal bond market is gearing up for what should be a busy week, with a bunch of good sized deals and one mega deal.

The muni market will see volume rise in the last week of October as buyers will be treated with a billion deal from Chicago’s Sales Tax Securitization Corp. and a $714 million offering from the Department of Los Angeles airports.

Texas factory activity continued to expand in October, although at a slower pace than the previous month.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is set to snatch from Timothy Geithner the mantle of selling a record amount of debt.

Purchases, which account for about 70% of the economy, rose 0.4% from the prior month, matching economists' estimates.

Statutes of limitation will be the main obstacle, observers say.

Mayor Kevin Faulconer announced plans to form a joint-powers authority to provide electricity