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Wisconsin's Foxconn incentives package paves way for $252 million in highway borrowing and local government financing help.

Top quality municipal bonds ended stronger on Thursday, traders said, as the last of the week’s big deals hit the screens.

The Terre Haute Board of Sanitary Commissioners on Tuesday began an $85 million bond issue for the second phase of a long-term combined sewer overflow plan.

With no asset to show for more than $4 billion of debt, Santee Cooper’s bonds were downgraded by S&P.

Kansas City council considering bonds, private financing for $1 billion airport terminal project.

Assured Guaranty Ltd., the largest municipal bond insurer, reported gains in second-quarter profit, boosted by share repurchases and lower reserve additions for Puerto Rico losses.

The Springfield Water and Sewer Commission, aided by a recent bond rating upgrade from Standard and Poor's Rating Service, has been able to refinance debt and issue new revenue bonds for millions of dollars in long-term savings.

Councilman J.Ross Lacy will present a smaller road bond plan to the Midland City Council Tuesday.

The St. Joseph City Council approved $67 million bond issuance from the state of Missouri's Direct Loan program to fund the Blacksnake Creek project.

A federal judge appointed an attorney to facilitate an agreement between Flint and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.

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

Texas enjoyed another strong month of growth in sales tax revenue in July, with the $2.56 billion total running 7.9% ahead of the same month last year.

Replacing LIBOR will raise economic and tax issues for many floating rate munis and swaps.

Top quality municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session, traders said, as the last of the week’s big deals hit the screens.

The University of Puerto Rico will seek to reduce its debt-service costs through a consensual agreement with its creditors as the commonwealth plans to cut the school’s appropriations by $3.5 billion through 2026.

Thomas D. Zoidis, a former municipal finance professional in Philadelphia, died on July 27. He was 84.

Washington State is without a multi-billion dollar capital budget to allow debt issuance for public needs, in what the state treasurer says is a further reflection of how “new politics” is undermining the municipal market.

The value of new factory orders rose by 3% in June, right on the target expectation by analysts from an MNI survey. Nondurable goods orders fell 0.3%, but durable goods orders were revised slightly down to a still strong 6.4% rise, data released by the Commerce Department Thursday morning showed.

Municipal bond traders are set to see the last of the week’s big deals hit the screens as several large competitive deals remain on tap.

Initial claims for U.S. state unemployment benefits fell by 5,000 to 240,000 in the July 29 week, exactly as expected, following a small upward revision to the claims level in the previous week, data released by the Labor Department Thursday showed.