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The Joplin Recovery Tax Increment Financing District that covers the disaster zone and downtown could be paid off in four to five years, as much as 13 years early at its current rate of growth, the Joplin City Council was told Monday night.

New York City could benefit to the tune of $200 million when the Grammy Awards returns to the city in 2018, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

Area residents who want to purchase bonds for the new Lewiston High School will have the chance starting May 31 -- an offer Lewiston, Idaho, resident Don Lloyd said he intends to take advantage of.

The Puerto Rico Oversight Board extended the deadline for Gov. Rosselló to submit the FY2018 budget by two weeks.

The Treasury Department Tuesday auctioned $24 billion of three-year notes with a 1 1/2% coupon at a 1.572% high yield, a price of 99.789820.

Municipal bonds weakened as deals from Cuyahoga County, Wisconsin, Hawaii, the city of Los Angeles, San Francisco BART and the New York MTA hit the market on Tuesday.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a bill to grant state public safety unions control over their pension investments.

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority intends to return to the catastrophe bond market.

The Federal Reserve should begin shrinking its balance sheet this year and put the reductions “on autopilot,” Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President and CEO Esther L. George said Tuesday.

The Treasury Department Tuesday auctioned $55 billion of four-week bills at a 0.710% high yield, a price of 99.944778.

The House has passed legislation that proposes to profoundly change the tenets of the ACA. To probe and discuss the changes, George Huang, Director and Senior Municipal Research Analyst for the Not-For-Profit Healthcare sector at Wells Fargo, is our guest speaker. John Hallacy is our host.

An eight-month high in March job openings and a pickup in quits indicate the U.S. labor market continues to tighten, a Labor Department report showed.

Instead of obsessing over negative arbitrage, use refunding efficiency as your signal to transact.

Deals from Cuyahoga County, Ohio; Wisconsin, the city of Los Angeles and the San Francisco BART hit the market in early activity on Tuesday. Municipal bond prices weakened in early trading.

The value of wholesale inventories rose 0.2% in March, a sharp upward adjustment from the 0.1% decline estimated in the advance estimate, while wholesale sales were flat, data released Tuesday by the U.S. Commerce Department showed.

Small business owners showed enthusiasm for current conditions but are worried about the future, according to National Federation of Independent Business' monthly Small Business Optimism index published Tuesday.

Pricing wires for negotiated bond offerings

Pricing wires for competitive bond offerings

The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority said Monday it is seeking approval from the Oversight Board for its deal with its creditors that was reached outside the court supervised restructuring that's underway for other issuers in the territory.

A bond sale Maine had planned for transportation is in limbo after the governor complained.