Economy

Thirty-four more S&P 100 companies will publicly disclose the composition of their workforce by race, ethnicity and gender, NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer said Monday.

A blaze in the wine country north of San Francisco more than quadrupled in size overnight to 11,000 acres.

Chicago's $1.2 billion airport refunding will smooth out fiscal operations through next year amid a massive decline in airline travel.

A project to bring train service to LaGuardia Airport is closer to breaking ground despite the fiscal headwinds created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The public-private partnership that had been constructing the light rail line and stations has shut down construction work.

Pledging the payroll mobility tax would get the authority a lower Municipal Liquidity Facility interest rate, board member Lawrence Schwartz said.

While most of the losses have been recovered on a monthly basis, the bigger picture is not as rosy.

A multi-part study by Cornell Consulting concludes that Florida should not build three major toll roads that are under consideration.

Eliseo Sampayo was fined $20,000, half of which will go to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board for violating its rules.

The housing market continues to lead all sectors in recovery, althoough a manufacturing and two services surveys also showed signs of recovery.

Lisa Daglian, executive director of the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA, and MTA board member Andrew Albert say supporting mass transit is the best way to rejuvenate the economy in New York and nationally. Paul Burton hosts. (27 minutes)

The system took two rating hits over its rising debt levels and strained balance sheet metrics as it readies a $354 million borrowing.

Investment banker Suzanne Shank and professor Michael Barr to serve on its Board of Trustees.

Feeling the revenue hit from the coronavirus, the commission has received state approval for a second delay in $112.5 million quarterly transit payments.

The settlement in which Roosevelt & Cross, Inc. agreed to pay $1 million is part of a now more than two-year crackdown on "flipping" arrangements.

Details of the pending investigation are sketchy but the legislation improved the value of a then-bankrupt FirstEnergy subsidiary's municipal bonds.

Most panelists don't expect rates to budge in the three-year projection horizon.

With its ratings intact as it navigates the pandemic's impact, the large Illinois system is issuing new money and refunding bonds