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Officials say the cost estimate for what New York City Transit president Andy Byford called "a full overhaul" is a work in progress.

Municipal bonds were stronger in late trading as West Virginia and the Regents of the University of California came to market.

The Long Island county named Frank Zarb to lead a task force aimed at tackling the county’s long-term budget challenges.

The investment bank attributed the exit of 15 from the public finance team to market conditions and a strategic review.

Muni market groups got a long-awaited win when the House passed banking legislation classifying certain munis as high-quality liquid assets, even if it wasn't as big a win as hoped.

Water, wastewater, and securitization deals, and possibly an O'Hare airport sale, are still to come from Chicago this year.

Federal Reserve officials said the economic outlook warranted another interest-rate hike “soon” and signaled they would welcome a modest overshoot of their 2% inflation target, indicating they're in no rush to tighten more aggressively.

Municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session as several big deals hit the market.

The Walton Family Foundation provided seed funds to create two “innovative” financing vehicles for charter school facilities.

In an effort to find proof of payment for many of the projects paid for with funds from the 2014 bond, the Greenville Independent School District Board of Trustees has selected Whitley Penn as the auditing firm that will review payments made to Bartlett Cocke General Contractors under the bond election program.

New single-family home sales fell by 1.5% to 662,000 in April following downward revisions to the sales pace in both February and March.

The bank deregulatory bill passed by Congress on Tuesday would also make fewer banks systemically important and close a legal loophole that had allowed banks to defraud Puerto Rico investors.

Franklin County will sell $250 million of tax-exempt, local government special tax revenue bonds.

Early returns indicate there have been some problems but firms seem to be working through them in complying with the new markup rules, regulators and industry officials said Tuesday.

West Virginia increased the amount of its competitive sales planned for Wednesday by almost 30% to save money.

Moody's Investors Service, citing fiscal improvements, upgraded the city to Ba3.

Lawmakers in the 27-member Florida delegation in the House are divided about whether more private-activity bonds should be used for Brightline's 235-mile passenger rail line.

Tax collections that came in below forecast reinforce the need for new tax revenues, said Elizabeth Muoio.

IHS Markit's agreement to buy Ipreo from Goldman Sachs and Blackstone private-equity funds is a milestone in the technological evolution of the municipal bond and fixed income markets.

Seattle is among governments that have lifted sanctions against Wells Fargo following a 2016 fraud scandal.