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Two companies are to invest more than $250 million into the agency’s 16 highway service areas.

Joseph Lhota repeated his call for New York City to contribute to the triage plan.

Top-rated municipal bonds were mixed ahead of the Labor Day weekend. The primary is wrapped up for the week, with no major deals scheduled for Thursday or Friday.

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

The Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia voted to finish the two reactors, but cost was not disclosed.

Pending home sales decreased 0.8% to an index reading of 109.1 in July, after a downwardly revised 1.3% gain to a 110.0 reading in June, according to a report released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors.

The Chicago Business Barometer was unchanged at 58.9 in August.

Municipal bond traders are taking a break as the market quiets down ahead of the looming Labor Day holiday weekend. The primary sector is wrapped up for the week, with no major deals scheduled for Thursday or Friday.

The seasonally adjusted Milwaukee Report on Business decreased to 55.41 in August from 56.98 in July, the Institute for Supply Management-Milwaukee reported Thursday.

Personal income was up 0.4% in July, while nominal PCE was up 0.3%, and the core PCE price index posted a 0.1% gain.

Initial claims for U.S. state unemployment benefits rose by 1,000 to 236,000 in the August 26 week, as expected, following an upward revision to the claims level in the previous week, data released by the Labor Department Thursday showed.

The Midwest Economy Index declined to 0.29 in July from 0.43 in June, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago said Thursday.

Fueled by oil and natural gas production taxes, the state’s rainy day fund is the biggest in any state.

The state passed a law to strengthen its school credit enhancement program, bringing Moody's upgrades to 58 school districts.

Bond financing was suggested to fund the IT upgrades.

The package delivers about $150 million more than district officials wrote into their spending plan for the year.

Top-rated municipal bonds ended unchanged on Wednesday, according to traders, as primary action dwindled down to a last few deals for the week.

The state priced a pair of GO offerings, one sold through negotiation and the other competitively.

The Scott County School District obtained an underlying rating instead of relying on the state’s recently downgraded enhancement program.

The Hicks-Hudson administration left $3 million in Toledo's general fund at the end of 2016 hoping it would help the city get a better bond rating.