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Municipal bond volume will dip to a more average 2018 level next week.

RBC is adding to its team even as smaller underwriting spreads have driven some players to reduce staff.

The city of Norwalk successfully executed a $30 million municipal bond sale to pay for city, school and redevelopment capital projects.

The Birmingham-Jefferson County Convention Complex received a blended interest rate of 3.91% on the series of bonds it sold on Tuesday to fund the construction of the downtown stadium and renovation of Legacy Arena.

MSRB is seeking comments on a revised set of potential draft amendments to its rules on primary offering practices and related disclosures that it says would benefit the market for relatively limited costs to participants.

The Federal Open Market Committee needs to be cautious on monetary policy or the yield curve could invert, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said.

Illinois' Baa3 rating remains one notch above junk, but the outlook is now stable, up from negative.

In the week ended July 19, the weekly average yield to maturity of the Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index rose to 3.97% from 3.96% the previous week. The BB40 Index is based on the price of 40 long-term bonds.

Sterling National Bank has a new municipal group focused on an array of non-public financing services during a time when loans to bond issuers are on the decline.

A motion for summary judgment by Indian River and Martin counties contends that the privately owned project isn’t eligible to use the private activity bonds.

Tuesday’s House hearing will be chaired by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who was a steadfast supporter of the previous standard under which a remote seller had to have a physical presence in a state in order to be required to collect sales taxes.

New issues were well spoken for on Thursday as hungry investors with available cash participated in the largest deals of the week.

An amended master trust indenture will reflect the combined finances of the largest health systems in Illinois and Wisconsin.

Henry County Superior Court Judge Arch McGarity ruled that bills signed by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal in May did not violate the state constitution.

President Donald Trump criticized the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate increases, breaking with more than two decades of White House tradition of avoiding comments on monetary policy out of respect for the independence of the U.S. central bank.

The district that runs the venue is planning a $974 million bond sale in the coming weeks.

The loss of the SALT deduction cost New Yorkers an additional $14.3 billion in 2018, state Attorney General Barbara Underwood told the Citizens Budget Commission.

Moody's upgraded the bonds issued to build the Mets' Citi Field while boosting its outlook for Yankee Stadium bonds.

George Callas most recently was senior tax counsel to House Speaker Paul Ryan and was a chief architect of the tax reform legislation enacted in December.

Municipal bond market participants are seeing the last of the week’s healthy new issue slate hit screens.