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While aversion to an inverted yield curve is strong in the municipal market, an inversion isn’t yet a foregone conclusion.

Despite “significant uncertainty” in monetary policymaking, the Federal Open Market Committee continues to back gradual increases in the federal funds rate, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday.

The U.S. current account deficit widened to $124.1 billion in the first quarter from a revised $116.1 billion gap in the previous quarter.

The sales tax increase will bring in an extra $30 million to cover a projected $28 million budget shortfall.

The nation's second-most-populous county faces “difficult choices," board President Toni Preckwinkle said.

Municipal bonds were ending stronger on Tuesday as several large, high-grade deals led by Georgia and Denver swept into the market.

Less than two weeks remain before the new fiscal year, and Gov. Phil Murphy and state lawmakers remain far apart.

The number of muni market dealers has fallen off even as trading activity remained stable, an MSRB report finds.

Salem faces unanticipated costs after cyanotoxins were found in the drinking water supply.

Mayor Tim Kabat Monday has vetoed the concept for the $49.2 million La Crosse Center expansion.

Higher contributions and benefit cuts will reduce Minnesota's unfunded pension liabilities.

The authority, one of the largest municipal issuers, will substitute a Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi letter of credit with State Street.

Illinois and Pennsylvania are the only two with a negative rating outlook, Fitch Ratings said Tuesday.

Municipal bonds were stronger on Tuesday as several large deals swept into the market.

Ex-Morgan Stanley branch manager Terry Lee McCoy failed to act on several "red flags" that the accounts of an elderly and incapacitated customer were being abused, FINRA said.

Without a centralized review, a series of fragmented studies could well create a quagmire for the bankruptcy court.

U.S. Conference of Mayors President Stephen Benjamin talks about the ways to get Congress to bring back advance refundings for municipal bond issuers. The mayor of Columbia, S.C., also discusses a Smart Cities agenda that’s focused on growing cities through improved infrastructure. John Hallacy is host.

The pace of housing starts rose 5.0% to a 1.350 million seasonally adjusted annual rate in May as building permits fell 4.6%.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said the U.S. economy is in great shape.

The territorial government's resistance to the labor law may prompt Oversight Board to approve its own version of the budget due this month.