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Michael Post will take on the role of chief legal officer after Bob Fippinger leaves this month.

The Federal Reserve’s Labor Market Conditions Index, a compilation of 19 labor market measures, dropped 1.8 points in June to 1.5, following a 0.5-point decline in May.

The Conference Board's Employment Trends Index (ETI) slid to 133.07 in June from a downwardly revised 133.32 in May, the group announced Monday.

New York City's comptroller called for a $3.5 billion bond measure to fund mass transit improvements.

Municipal bond traders are set to see a chunky new issue slate head to market this week. Volume is estimated at $9.29 billion, composed of $7.94 billion of negotiated deals and $1.35 billion of competitive sales.

As regulators move to raise execution standards, electronic trading comes to play a significantly more important role in the compliance process.

Pricing wires for negotiated bond offerings

Treasury has targeted the proposed political subdivision rules as burdensome.

Liquidity and pension woes still remain after Illinois enacted its first budget since 2015.

Municipal market participants will get back to work and find their hands full, with $9 billion of new issuance forecast for the primary market.

Newly issued Treasury securities held in stripped form increased about $3.760 billion in April to a total of $249.587 billion, the Bureau of the Public Debt reported Friday.

Oregon will raise the state gasoline tax and issue bonds to fund a $5.3 billion road plan.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch used a big second quarter to overtake Citi at the top of the municipal league tables, while Morgan Stanley, RBC Capital Markets and Goldman Sachs moved up in the first half rankings.

Moody's Investors Service said it has placed Chicago's Ba1 general obligation rating under review for possible downgrade.

Top-shelf municipal bonds were weaker at mid-session, according to traders, who were looking ahead to next week’s hefty new issue slate. Ipreo estimates volume at $9.29 billion, consisting of $7.94 billion of negotiated deals and $1.35 billion of competitive sales.

In its semiannual monetary policy report to Congress, the Federal Reserve Board gave no new insight into its current policy stance, when it might raise rates again or when it would initiate a change to its reinvestment policy.

More than two years after creating a CEO position, the Port Authority hasn't hired one.

Jessica Giroux will replace Bill Daly as NABL's director of government affairs next year.

Municipal bond traders are finishing up a sleepy week where very little happened in the secondary and the primary was even quieter.

U.S. inflationary pressures were up slightly in June, according to data released Friday morning by the Economic Cycle Research Institute.