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Regulators will focus on helping dealers and municipal advisors comply with recently adopted rules and will also monitor how tax reform legislation impacts muni market practices.

The new tax law and imminent scarcity threaten to change market dynamics for muni buyers in 2018.

Municipal bonds strengthened Tuesday as the primary market shifted to holiday mode after breaking the December record for issuance.

The project to protect environmentally sensitive areas like the Florida Everglades from toxic algae could cost close to $2 billion.

The number of people employed in Puerto Rico during November fell 1.8% from July.

The Treasury Department Tuesday auctioned $26 billion of two-year notes with a 1 7/8% coupon at a 1.922% yield, a price of 99.908366.

When primary voters in Lake Zurich head to the polls in March, they'll have a chance to decide whether officials at Lake Zurich Community Unit School District 95 should spend $77.6 million on large-scale upgrades to school buildings.

The Hawaii Tourism Authority has fallen short of making its full state reimbursement for the Hawai'i Convention Center for the past two years.

Finance Director Lynne Barrett is finalizing a plan for paying off the $48 million debt the town incurred when its force sewer main collapsed two years ago this month.

The Regional Transportation Authority of Northeastern Illinois and its three service boards remain starved for new state capital dollars as 2018 marks a fourth year without an infusion of state help.

Tender rates for the Treasury Department's latest 91-day and 182-day discount bills were higher on Tuesday.

Texas factory activity, as measured by the production index, “expanded strongly in December.”

Marcia Clark, head of California’s Fixed Income Academy, says business schools need to offer more bond classes. Co-hosted by Paul Burton and Keeley Webster.

The municipal market will be staffed by skeleton crews as the calendar has no negotiated deals and only small competitives, which don't even total $3 million — and another long holiday weekend right around the corner.

Service sector activity saw “continued growth in December.”

Manufacturing growth in the central Atlantic region was “moderate” in December.

Home prices rose 6.2% on an annual basis in October, not seasonally adjusted, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index, released Tuesday.

President Donald Trump will nominate Jerome Powell again to serve as the chair of the Federal Reserve after the Senate adjourned Thursday without voting to confirm him, White House spokeswoman Natalie Strom said.

The SEC's muni enforcement focus in 2018 will include offering and disclosure-related fraud, broker-dealer abuses, municipal advisor misconduct, public corruption, and pay-to-play practices.

The city of Houston can move forward with its plan to sell $1 billion in bonds on Friday as part of Mayor Sylvester Turner's landmark pension reform passed by the Texas Legislature earlier this year, a judge ruled.