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Among those affected by the EnerVest collapse are public pension funds in Texas, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, California and Florida.

House appropriators adopt 2018 spending plan that defunds TIGER and trims HUD grants.

The Chicago-based investment banking firm said Tuesday it will drop its municipal sales, trading, and underwriting business.

Top-rated municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session, according to traders, as the competitive arena heated up with the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York’s offering four bond sales totaling almost $1.5 billion while the state of New Mexico brought two sales totaling over $380 million.

Clarkston, Wash., School District voters will make the call in November on a $60.5 million school improvement bond after the Clarkston School Board made the ask official Monday.

S&P dropped Alaska to AA amid dwindling budget reserves.

The Treasury Department Tuesday auctioned $45 billion of four-week bills at a 0.955% high yield, a price of 99.925722.

Sean Carney, director and head of municipal strategy at BlackRock, talks about municipal issuance in the first half of 2017 and makes some predictions on how the second half of the year will look. He also discusses distressed states — which state could recover first and why and how a downgrade of Illinois would be a big deal for the market. Hosted by Aaron Weitzman in a conversation recorded on June 29.

The Grapevine Convention Center proved too small for a public hearing on potential bond projects that started off with the fire marshal running more than 100 people out of an overfilled auditorium Monday.

A decreased reliance on bonds to finance capital investments has created a need for more municipal market research tools, experts said.

While EMMA has helped the market, it has not bridged the gap between institutional and retail.

Builders’ confidence in the market for new single-family homes slipped as the National Association of Home Builders' housing market index fell to 64 in July from a downwardly revised 66 in June.

The city's finances and bond ratings are strong, Kasim Reed told the Brookings conference.

Municipal bond traders are set to see the first of the week’s new issue hit the screens on Tuesday, led by the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York’s four competitive bond sales.

U.S. import prices fell by 0.2% in June on a significant drop in fuel prices and industrial supplies and materials, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Tuesday.

The New York region's service sector activity" showed little change," according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's July Business Leaders Survey, released Tuesday.

State government April income tax revenue fell 4%, in what may be an early sign of the "Trump Effect" on taxpayer behavior.

Pricing wires for competitive bond offerings

Pricing wires for negotiated bond offerings

Fitch took Illinois off negative watch, while keeping a negative outlook on its BBB rating.