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Funding a major capital program increasingly with debt is a big challenge, said finance director Robert Foran.

Attracting companies like Amazon requires more than tax incentives, favorable regulations and other lures to which we can attach a dollar sign.

Moody's Investors Service lowered its outlook for the county's Aa1 rating.

Hurricane czar Alan Rubin of Blank Rome discusses the financing of resilience and recovery from extreme weather. Paul Burton hosts.

Service sector “activity softened in October,” according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond service-sector activity survey.

Manufacturing growth in the central Atlantic region “expanded moderately in October,” while prices accelerated.

The region's services sector expanded at a steady pace, as the general business conditions index grew to 37.6 in October from 37.4 in September,

Although there is no direct role for tax-exempt bonds in Opportunity Zones, municipalities are looking at them as a way to attract capital investment to economically distressed areas.

Puerto Rico bonds gained in a mixed muni market as a revised fiscal plan projected a bigger surplus.

The revised five-year fiscal plan projects increased disaster-related funding and slowing population decline through 2023.

Gage County had consulted a bankruptcy attorney, who told officials it wouldn't qualify for Chapter 9.

Clients have filed hundreds of similar claims against UBS since 2013, with aggregate damages of $2.6 billion.

A muni advisor facing an enforcement action could use a Supreme Court decision on gambling as a defense, a bond lawyer says.

Next month Maine voters will be asked to borrow $106 million for the state's transportation infrastructure, adding to hundreds of millions of dollars in debt the state has taken on in recent years to prop up its underfunded highway budget.

Voters in one of the nation's fastest-growing counties will decide on a $750 million bond measure for roads as one of its school districts seeks $690 million.

Municipal bonds were stronger on Monday ahead of this week’s rather paltry new issue supply calendar.

California and New York City are showing us the path forward, as they often do, in the face of the new limits on the federal deduction for state and local taxes.

The impact of the 2008 crisis led Congress and the MSRB to reshape many of the ways business is done in the municipal bond market. Part 1 of The Bond Buyer's series on the decade after the financial crisis.

What began as trouble in the housing and mortgage markets shook the whole world in 2008, including a municipal bond industry that had to learn to live without bond insurance, auction-rate debt and some big investment banks.

As the Puerto Rico Oversight Board gets ready to approve a five-year fiscal plan this week, it is setting up a power struggle between itself and Gov. Ricardo Rosselló and the commonwealth legislature.