Economy

Illinois residents will experience stop-and-go deja vu next year, with many construction projects continuing from years past.

As surface transportation funding is set to expire later in 2020, a new reauthorization could help push muni bond initiatives next year.

The markets will build on 2019’s gains next year, as they withstood “trade tensions, impeachment, and geopolitical uncertainties” with the economy posting a record 11th year of expansion, according to economists.

Jay Goldstone was considered instrumental in San Diego’s re-entry to the bond markets following the city’s pensions scandal in the mid-aughts.

Gary Hall of Siebert Williams Shank talks with Chip Barnett about the recent merger which created the largest minority- and women-owned investment bank in the U.S. He looks back at his time at the MSRB and looks ahead to what the market may see in 2020.

Public backlash and procedural missteps led the Jacksonville, Florida municipal utility’s board to end negotiations with potential bidders.

Manufacturing activity contracted again in December, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond’s survey.

The U.S. Department of Transportation reasonably determined the Florida’s passenger train owners were qualified to receive private activity bond financing.

Bob Labes, a partner at Squire Patton Boggs, explores the growth of multifamily housing bonds, private activity bond caps, the RAD program and other dynamics. Paul Burton hosts.

New home sales rose to 719,000 in November, from a downwardly revised 710,000 pace in October, first reported as a 733,000 pace, the Commerce Department said Monday.

Not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare systems are positioned to weather headwinds facing the medical profession in the 2020s.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board will require more data starting Nov. 30, 2020.

Gross domestic product grew at the expected 2.1% annualized pace in the third quarter, as economists wondered how long consumers will stay strong and offset soft business investment.

Members of a bipartisan panel appear to agree in principle on a long-term proposal to narrow the state's annual highway funding gap by using more state revenue, adding taxes and fees and lowering annual bonding for transportation.

The markets suggest investors won't react to the impeachment of President Trump, while a mixed bag of indicators say the economy will continue growing at a moderate pace.

Throughout the past 10 years, there appear to have been several small recessions — or pauses — in the economy.

Facing loss of their tax-exemption under 2017 tax legislation, rural electric and utility cooperatives lobbied for language in the new federal spending bill.

The economy should continue its moderate growth path, inflation may tick up, downside risks seem to have been put at bay by the Federal Reserve, and rates are likely to stay where they are, experts say.

The Bond Buyer's Paul Burton and Andrew Coen dissect Northeast regional transportation, including the stalled Gateway tunnel project, New York MTA, NJTransit, Penn Station and Connecticut's tolling debate.

Recession fears, which persisted earlier this year, have subsided and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren does not expect a downturn unless a major shock occurs.