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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.

The Chicago Fed National Activity Index for September declined to 0.17 from an upwardly revised 0.27 in August.

The steady pace of U.S. economic growth, supported in part by monetary policy, is consistent with the central bank’s plan to continue gradually lifting interest rates.

Weekly bond volume is forecast to fall to $5.9 billion from $10.3 billion in the prior week.

The Hillsborough County Aviation Authority prices a new-money deal Tuesday for Tampa international Airport, boosted by an upgrade from Kroll.

The new GASB standards apply to Other Post-Employment Benefits, or OPEB, which mostly pertain to retiree health benefits, but also can include dental, vision, disability and death benefits.

S&P Global Ratings cautioned Chicago's leaders about issuing pension obligation bonds and avoiding a backslide on budget progress.

The Federal Open Market Committee should raise rates two, maybe three times to reach a neutral policy rate, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan said Friday.

Household survey is much more positive about total employment than establishment survey.

A new law takes effect Nov. 1 to allow New Jersey to collect sales tax on products shipped from out of state in the wake of the Supreme Court's Wayfair ruling.

Municipal bond supply plunges to under $6 billion next week after seeing over $10 billion of new issues priced this week.