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The Treasury Department Tuesday auctioned $20 billion of four-week bills at a 1.300% high yield, a price of 99.898889.

Opponents withdrew petitions for a threatened referendum that had stalled plans to issue bonds for the Quicken Loans Arena rehab.

Although the holiday shortened week curbs muni volume to less than $4 billion it should not impact demand. Municipal market participants will have their eyes on the sizeable deals of the week.

One of the older school districts in Stephens County, Velma-Alma Public Schools, Okla. is hoping to pass a $350,000 bond to modernize their cafeteria building.

Kevin Lembo says rating agencies are poised to hammer the state and its cities again.

Five winners of the Carey Gabay scholarship program were announced on Monday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced.

New Jersey’s Cooper University Health announced plans to acquire three Catholic hospitals in a deal that would create the state’s fourth largest healthcare chain.

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.