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Top-rated municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session according to traders who were returning to their desks on Tuesday and looking ahead to the week’s lighter-than-average holiday week calendar.

Tender rates for the Treasury Department's latest 91-day and 182-day discount bills were mixed, as the three-months incurred a 1.020% high rate, up from 1.020% the prior week, and the six-months incurred a 1.115% high rate, unchanged from 1.115% the week before.

Advantages in price, execution, transparency, and liquidity run up against the market's reluctance to change.

Dean Fuleihan, director of the New York City Office of Management and Budget, discusses how the city's $85 billion 2018 spending plan mirrors principles in place throughout Mayor Biill de Blasio's entire first term. Hosted by Chip Barnett and Paul Burton.

The Conference Board's Employment Trends Index (ETI) rose to 134.62 in August from a downwardly revised 133.60 in July, first reported as 133.77, and is up 4.6% from a year ago, the group announced Tuesday.

The value of new factory orders fell by 3.3% in July, falling slightly lower than the expected -3.1% by analysts from an MNI survey.

“New York City purchasing managers reported decreased current business conditions,” the Institute for Supply Management-New York’s Report on Business index indicated.

Consolidation and technology are among the changes navigated by the Baggotts of Executive Search Placements.

Municipal bond traders were returning to their desks on Tuesday and looking ahead to the week’s lighter-than-average holiday week calendar, with volume estimated at $3.86 billion.

The Federal Open Market Committee must be confident inflation will rise to the 2% target before raising interest rates again, Gov. Lael Brainard said Tuesday.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley was investigated and cleared by an outside law firm for failing to disclose his half-sister’s position as an executive at Wells Fargo & Co., according to an annual disclosure filing.

Hahn & Hahn hopes WMBE designation will attract new energy sector clients

Two of Iowa's top elected officials are at odds over whether state government should use short-term borrowing to head off potential cash-flow problems that could delay school aid payments or meeting other obligations on time in 2018.

Volume in the primary municipal bond market is expected to decline to fewer than $4 billion of bonds issued, a typical slowdown following a holiday weekend.

The signing of Illinois Senate Bill 1947 alleviates the uncertainty for schools created by the multiyear state budget stalemate and recent veto, Standard & Poor’s said.

The immense financial impact of the storm is becoming apparent.

The UT system will offer investors a choice of taxable or tax-exempt debt as it prices $600 million of bonds.

Municipalities object to a report by Gov. Dannel Malloy's budget office that defends the level of state aid.

Challenger Nicole Malliotakis called the post-Sandy program “one of the monumental failures” of Bill de Blasio's administration

An Alabama group wants the justices to rule on a state law backing the county’s recent refunding deal.