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Initial jobless claims rose by 9,000 to 217,000 in the July 21 week after dipping to their lowest point since 1969 in the previous week.

Orders placed with U.S. factories for business equipment increased in June for a third straight month, a sign of investment momentum.

The U.S. Territorial Relief Act of 2018 would give territories the option to terminate their debt obligations while authorizing $7.5 billion in federal funds to compensate mainland creditors who are individual investors, trade unions, pension plans, and open-end mutual funds.

“I realize the urgency of the situation,” U.S. District Court Judge Swain said at the end of the Title III bankruptcy hearing in San Juan.

Municipal bond buyers were singing “I love New York” on Wednesday as they grabbed bonds from two Empire State issuers.

The Ohio-based operator is acquiring the operations of HCR ManorCare.

The upgrade comes ahead of a $619 million bond sale.

The school district scaled down its original proposal for a capital bond referendum and operating referendum.

The county legislature unanimously approved $154 million of bonding projects.

Eight state projects to expand reservoirs and build new dams will receive state bond funding.

State-owned Santee Cooper is battling cross claims by electric cooperatives that buy power from the agency in a suit over its shelved twin reactor project.

Two big New York issuers came to market on Wednesday as municipal bonds were little changed in secondary action.

Federal securities regulators have dismissed the most serious claim against the city’s airport authority and removed a top official from litigation altogether as part of a settlement reached in the long-running legal battle over a controversial tax increment bond offering in 2008.

U.S. purchases of new homes fell in June to the slowest pace in eight months.

Chairman Jerome Powell is under pressure to adopt what would amount to a put tied to the bond market.

Rep. Bill Shuster's infrastructure discussion draft would temporarily raise federal fuels taxes for the ailing Highway Trust Fund while a newly created commission would determine how to ensure its long-term solvency.

The plan for a second tax reform bill is galvanizing municipal market groups to step up lobbying efforts to tout the importance and benefits of munis to lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., blasted the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. as having “the potential to unleash chaos for consumers and remote sellers, particularly small business sellers.”

The University of Illinois at Chicago has launched the Government Finance Research Center.

California’s Infrastructure bank hit the municipal market with a big note offering on Monday, while a New York City Transitional Finance Authority deal was offered to retail buyers.