Economy

Ohio legislature settled on a leaner gas tax increase to help fund fixes for its roads and bridges.

The Stockton City Council voted to issue multifamily housing revenue bonds.

Owners of the privately owned passenger train project plan to ask the Florida Development Finance Corp. to approve more bonds Friday.

Even before Tim Sloan stepped down as chief executive of the scandal-stung Wells Fargo, the bank had already gotten back into the good graces of the biggest U.S. state.

New York economic conditions rebounded in March, with purchasing managers reversing course on almost all indexes from the prior month.

City officials say their citizens' buy-in will lead them to success in a sector where other municipalities struggled in competition with corporate providers.

Green bonds and sustainable offerings are on tap this week as several sales are set to hit the market. Buyers are expected to snap up the paper that aims to fund clean water, school and housing initiatives.

The overall economy grew for the 119th straight time.

The Illinois Finance Authority takes retail orders Tuesday on the $450 million SRF deal before pricing Wednesday.

The massive New Jersey and New York agency announced a new underwriting pool for its plans to issue $8 billion of bonds over the next three years.

Moody's Investors Service downgraded one public electric utility and assigned negative outlooks to three after reviewing potential wildfire liability exposure.

Respondents to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's monthly manufacturing survey reported moderate acceleration of growth in March.

Pending home sales declined 1.0% to an index reading of 101.9 in February, after a revised 4.3% gain to 102.9 in January, according to a report released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors.

Rising passenger totals at Bradley International Airport prompted a bond sale to fund a consolidated car rental facility.

As Congress prepares work on an infrastructure package, the transportation secretary endorsed private funding through pensions and endowment funds.

Its $1.5 billion unrated deal will be sold to qualified institutional buyers to finance Florida’s privately owned passenger train project.

Manufacturing and services growth in the central Atlantic region in March was weaker than in February.

U.S. new-home groundbreakings fell in February by the most in eight months on a drop in single-family homes, suggesting buyers and builders remain wary despite higher wages and a drop in mortgage rates.

A Chicago area broker-dealer agreed to pay a $25,000 to settle FINRA charges that it relied on alternative trading systems and failed to maintain its own risk-management controls.

Texas factory activity growth, as measured by the production index, “continued to expand in March,” but at a slower pace than in February.