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The Ohio Secretary of State's Office has approved the ballot language for the Meigs County Sheriff's Office and Correctional Facility levy, with the intent to issue bonds, for placement on the November general election ballot.

The Treasury Department Tuesday auctioned $45 billion of four-week bills at a 0.985% high yield, a price of 99.923389.

The Norwich City Council voted unanimously Monday to send an ordinance appropriating $5 million in bond money for infrastructure improvements to referendum.

Houston's $495 million bond package will fund library repairs, park upgrades and new police and fire vehicles.

The City Council voted unanimously to allow city officials to bond out as much as $3 million more to pay for cost overruns of what is now Portsmouth's $26.2 million second municipal parking garage.

The number of open positions rose by 461,000, the most in almost two years, to 6.163 million (estimates were for 5.75 million) from an upwardly revised 5.702 million in May.

Peter DeGroot, Strategist and Head of Municipal Research at JPMorgan, joins us to discuss his views on the municipal market for the second half from both the technical and credit aspects. Hosted by John Hallacy.

The subway crisis could change the political landscape, New York's mayor says.

Small businesses were more optimistic, as hiring activity increased, according to the National Federation of Independent Business' monthly Small Business Optimism index.

About $2.5 billion of bonds are coming from just two issuers on Tuesday, as the market gears up for big competitive sales from New York and a large negotiated deal out of Ohio amid various other deals from around the country.

The New York mayor and his supporters must shepherd the bill through Albany.

Moody's Investors Service has upgraded to Aa2 from Aa3 the long-term joint support letter of credit (LOC)-backed ratings of the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Gas Works (PGW) Revenue Refunding Bonds.

Puerto Rico’s June economic activity declined 0.5% compared to May and 2.1% compared to a year earlier.

Philadelphia’s sin and sweet taxes yielded Pennsylvania’s largest city more than $500 million in revenue over the last five years, according to a new economic report.

Top quality municipal bonds finished mixed on Monday, according to traders as the first of the week’s big new issues came to market out of the Midwest.

Port Houston has lost one of its three triple-A ratings due to legal and technical issues, but business prospects remain strong, port officials say.

Meanwhile, states are working to solve revenue collection problems with remote sales, S&P said.

Consumer credit increased by $12.4 billion in June to $3.856 trillion, the Federal Reserve reported Monday.

The City Colleges of Chicago budget won the Civic Federation's endorsement.

Public finance professional Olyvia Jarmoszka is joining Sycamore Advisors in Chicago.