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The municipal bond market on Monday is eyeing this week's small holiday calendar of new issues, which is dominated by taxable deals.

The Constitution State is bringing the largest negotiated deal to a supply starved market this week — although the state is faced with fiscal challenges, it hopes the big sale satisfies investors, during a time when munis are attractive but supply is scarce.

Texas factory activity, as measured by the production index, “continued to expand in March, albeit at a markedly slower pace than last month.”

Public entities are especially susceptible to email scams because open records and open meetings laws and transparent operations make it easy for criminals to conduct reconnaissance on employees and transactions.

The Chicago Fed National Activity Index for February increased to 0.88 from a downwardly revised 0.02 in January.

The Federal Reserve is facing a backlash over its lack of diversity in key positions after it emerged this weekend that John Williams, the current president of the San Francisco regional branch, is a front-runner to succeed William Dudley as head of the powerful New York Fed.

The credit unions say that Puerto Rico used fraud and pressure to get them to buy the government bonds.

The nonprofit hospital chain expects significant savings even though it must issue taxable debt to refund tax-exempt bonds.

Municipals will see yet another week of sub-$4 billion issuance, as taxables take the top spot on the calendar.

City and state groups credited Congress for supporting programs the administration wanted zeroed out, including the Federal Transit Administration’s Capital Investment Grants program, which will get $2.6 billion.

Two regional Federal Reserve bank presidents said they favor raising interest rates twice more this year following a hike this week, but were open to shifting their views if the outlook warranted a different policy approach.

The Philadelphia School District received approval for the framework of a 5% budget increase from its lame duck governing body.

Detroit's affordable housing plan would give developers access to private activity bonds associated with Michigan’s 4% tax credit program.

A day after seeing the market rally and strengthen by five basis points on the long end, munis were quiet and flat ahead of another week of lackluster volume.

The state has agreed to pay off Hartford's general obligation debt — about $550 million over the next two decades or so — as part of the bailout promised to the city under the most recent state budget.

Gov. Phil Murphy is targeting New Jersey Economic Development Authority tax incentive programs.

The veteran-owned firm hires Jon Welch as director of public finance, based in San Diego.

New single-family home sales pace slowed down slightly by 0.6% to 618,000, following sharp upward revisions to January, December, and November.

The value of U.S. durable goods new orders surged 3.1% in February, much stronger than the 1.7% increase expected by analysts in an MNI survey.

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic said he backed the Fed’s rate hike and would vote for others, even though inflation could potentially surpass 2%.