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Top-rated municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session, traders said, as the week’s largest deal came to market — the New Jersey Economic Development Authority’s $554 million sale.

The Treasury Department said Thursday it will auction $39 billion 91-day bills and $33 billion 182-day discount bills Monday.

The Senate Banking Committee voted Thursday to advance the nominations of Randal Quarles to serve as the Federal Reserve’s vice chairman for supervision and Joseph Otting to be Comptroller of the Currency, taking key steps toward President Donald Trump’s goal of reshaping regulation of Wall Street.

The Democratic mayoral candidates debated the city's resilience level as more hurricane activity looms.

The storms force us to consider the value of public assets in everyday life, the prospects for rebuilding with municipal financing, and the effects on credit quality.

The MSRB is now providing market-wide data on the most active securities and issuers.

Municipal bond traders are set to see the week’s largest deal come to market on Thursday — the New Jersey Economic Development Authority’s $595 million offering.

Second quarter nonfarm productivity was revised up to a 1.5% rate of growth from a 0.9% gain previously reported, while unit labor costs were revised down to a 0.2% pace of growth from the 0.6% rise in the preliminary estimate.

Initial claims for U.S. state unemployment benefits surged by 62,000 to 298,000 in the September 2 week, well above the 248,000 level expected and the highest level since the April 18, 2015 week, data released by the Labor Department Thursday showed.

A U.S. district court on Tuesday rejected that bond insurer Ambac Financial was liable for allegedly overly optimistic and misleading statements it had made about its insured Puerto Rico bonds.

Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp., a subsidiary of Assured Guaranty Ltd., and Wasmer, Schroeder & Company announced the closing of AGM's acquisition of a minority interest in WSC on Wednesday.

Top-quality municipal bonds ended mixed on Wednesday as the big Honolulu and Pennsylvania sales hit the screens.

The special session on Sept. 25 will be asked to resolve funding problems in the wake of the state Supreme Court's rejection of a "smoking cessation fee."

The transportation package limits bonding to $400 million.

They say a report shows state could shave billions off interest costs if it borrows to pay down the state's unpaid bill backlog.

Lloyd Blankfein, who was Gary Cohn’s boss for more than a decade at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., endorsed his former deputy’s qualifications to run the Federal Reserve.

President Trump sided with Democrats on adding a three-month extension of the U.S. debt limit over the arguments of fellow Republicans, who pressed for a longer debt extension.

All 12 Federal Reserve districts reported modest or moderate economic growth in the past two months, the latest Beige Book survey showed Wednesday, up from the 10 reporting those levels of growth in the previous period.

S&P Global Ratings cited improved employment and demographic indicators, and projected growth in reserve levels.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is taking applications for $500 million of grant funding.