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Tender rates for the Treasury Department's latest 91-day and 182-day discount bills were lower, as the three-months incurred a 0.820% high rate, down from 0.825% the prior week, and the six-months incurred a 0.945% high rate, down from 0.950% the week before.

The Treasury Department said Monday it will sell $55 billion of four-week discount bills Tuesday.

New Jersey’s pension burden continues to worsen, according to a Moody’s Investors Service report.

Confidence among U.S. home builders cooled in April after jumping a month earlier to the highest level since mid-2005, according to data Monday from the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo.

Municipal bond market participants are returning to work after the long holiday weekend. Traders will be eyeing declining muni yields as they await the start of the week’s new issuance.

Business activity grew at a more subdued pace in New York State, according to firms responding to the April 2017 Empire State Manufacturing Survey.

Pricing wires for negotiated bond offerings

Pricing wires for competitive bond offerings

Puerto Rico bondholders at a meeting Thursday sought substantially better terms from the Puerto Rico Oversight Board and government.

Four investment funds holding COFINA senior bonds are claiming Bank of New York Mellon breached its duties as trustee.

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice likened the fiscal 2018 budget passed by the legislature to a “death certificate,” as he vetoed the spending plan.

In the week ended April 13, the weekly average yield to maturity of the Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index fell five basis points to 4.18% from 4.23% the previous week. The BB40 Index is based on the price of 40 long-term bonds.

Municipal market participants will come back to work after a long holiday weekend to almost $7 billion of new issuance, highlighted by another billion dollar deal from California.

Gov. Dannel Malloy said he would devote the rest of his term to patching up Connecticut's economy.

Guam is looking to issue short-term debt to pay tax refunds to its citizens.

If the packed town council meeting last Wednesday was any indication, there will be many Oro Valley, Ariz., residents hoping to weigh in next week on the $17 million proposal to develop the 213-acre Naranja Park.

UBS Wealth Management Americas is looking to revive its capital markets and public finance businesses, hiring Peter Hill from Wells Fargo and Steven Genyk from Janney, and reassigning Chief Risk Officer Mark Sanborn to head capital markets and sales.

Municipal bonds were trading stronger at midday, according to traders, who were wrapping up their business ahead of the full market close for Good Friday. Ipreo estimates municipal bond volume for next week at $6.82 billion.

Dannenberg says regulators are losing sight of rules' goals, making them complex and burdensome.