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As the political gears churn, issuers and borrowers should huddle with legal counsel and financial advisors to consider the possibility of worst-case scenarios in which some or all of the proposed tax reform legislation is enacted.

Existing home sales grew 2.0% to a seasonally adjusted 5.48 million-unit rate in October from a revised 5.37 million sales pace the previous month.

The impact of tax reform is on the minds of all participants in the municipal bond market. The Bond Buyer’s Washington Bureau Chief Lynn Hume joins Contributing Editor John Hallacy in breaking down what the House and Senate plans will mean for state and local governments as well as the effect it will have on underwriters and dealers, bond counsel and financial advisors. Hosted by Chip Barnett.

The region's non-manufacturing sector “continued to expand, but with a slowing in the pace of growth.”

The Chicago Fed National Activity Index for October increased to 0.65 from 0.36 in September, while the three-month moving average (CFNAI-MA3) rose to 0.28 from 0.01, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago reported Tuesday.

On Jun. 30, 2017. Dollars in thousands.

The MTA offered $2.2 billion of green bonds to retail buyers, looking to save on borrowing costs with a type of sale that may be banned under pending tax legislation.

Puerto Rico’s government announced it would pay its annual Christmas bonus to workers this year.

SEC takes stock of fiscal 2017 in enforcement and finds 4% of its cases were public finance-related.

The council said the delay to Nov. 27 would buy more time for newly elected council members to weigh in on an amended version of a 30-year deal with Great Lakes Water Authority.

The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority governing board said it was gathering a Transformation Advisory Council of utility industry leaders.

October revenue jumped $231 million compared to a year ago.

Kansas City, Missouri was banking on private activity bonds for a "significant" role in the airport financing.

Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen will resign as a member of the Fed’s Board of Governors when Jerome Powell is sworn in as chair, the Fed announced Monday.

Senate President Dominick J. Ruggerio expects rewritten stadium-financing legislation to direct more revenue from a new PawSox ballpark to the City of Pawtucket to protect its ability to pay off the debt the city would incur to help build at the Apex department store site.

If the debate leading up to a Wessington Springs School District bond election is any indication, residents can expect a close race when polls close Nov. 28.

Falling Treasury yields despite Federal Reserve short-term rate hikes have caused "conundrum" like that seen in 2004-2005, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, but unlike the earlier occasion, economists may understand it better this time.

The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s $2.2 billion deal was offered to retail buyers. In secondary trading, municipals were trading mixed at mid-session.

Houston hits the market with more certainty about its pensions but less about the tax-exempt market.

Tender rates for the Treasury Department's latest 90-day and 181-day discount bills were higher on Monday, as the three-months incurred a 1.285% high rate, up from 1.240% the prior week, and the six-months incurred a 1.415% high rate, up from 1.360% the week before.