Economy

Several Midwest-based not-for-profit health systems are set to borrow for new or acquired facilities and to refund debt with green bonds and taxables in the mix.

About 84% of minority- and women-owned business enterprises still do not have access to city government spending, according to the latest report.

New York's governor leaned on the Port Authority to pause the LaGuardia project amid wider debate about regional infrastructure.

States so far have taken the lead in mileage-based user fee programs, which would now be taken up on the federal level for the first time.

A proposal from the Ohio Treasury would provide a new enhancement for state-purchased public university debt and offer a backstop for hospitals' VRDOs.

The proposed guidance does not indicate any particular problems with compliance, the MSRB said.

The firm’s distribution capabilities across major and mid-size institutional accounts, professionally managed retail accounts, and high net worth individual accounts is a throwback to founder Archibald Bullock Roosevelt’s vision.

A huge investment in technology dominates the MSRB's budget.

The Allegheny County Airport Authority sold $832.7 million of bonds to cover two-thirds of the construction costs in the latest example of the region's modernization.

Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said the power agency's new leaders must end the outages plaguing the island.

Mayors are urging Congress to preserve major housing support in the reconciliation bill.

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's annual report reinfornced the transit authority's struggles that took hold during the pandemic.

A merger of Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health would form the largest system in Michigan with 22 hospitals and $12 billion of revenue.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management, BlackRock, Lord Abbett, Morgan Stanley Investment Management and Vanguard have partnered with Loop Capital and Siebert Williams Shank to send a survey to issuers on racial equity and inclusion.

Gavin Newsom lauded the $15 billion approved by lawmakers for climate change, but transportation was left out in the cold.

Without the primary in play and a mostly muted secondary, triple-A yield curves were little changed, coming nowhere near the moves in UST with the 10- and 30-year falling five and six basis points as equities saw their worst day since May.

Concerns range from frayed infrastructure to better communication in the face of the deadly flash flooding that caught the city by surprise in storm Ida.

The Long Island utility intends to sell electric system general revenue bonds in three tranches.

$2.75 billion is available to build permanent housing for unhoused people, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a press conference.

The proposed union that would give the two a healthy market position in Illinois comes as federal regulators are stepping up anti-competitive scrutiny of such transactions.