Economy

In addition to the local bond measures, voters will also decide seven governor's races and a Missouri fuel tax.

John Barton, national Department of Transportation sector leader at HNTB, discusses how President Donald Trump’s steel tariff policy is slowing down transportation construction projects and why there has been lack of progress from the White House on a promised infrastructure bill. Andrew Coen hosts.

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index reported a 5.8% annual gain in August, down from 6.0% in July.

Moody's Investors Service cut the outlook for the system, already rated at junk Ba1.

Mayor Kevin Faulconer announced plans to form a joint-powers authority to provide electricity

The number of MSRB-registered dealers has fallen by almost one-third since 2009 and FINRA and the MSRB have some concerns about it.

Write-downs on two major U.S. public-private partnerships led to the company decision, Skanska’s president said.

Respondents to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's monthly manufacturing survey reported slower growth in October, with tariffs causing supply issues.

Pending home sales climbed 0.5% to an index reading of 104.6 in September, after a revised 1.9% fall to 104.1 in August.

Sergio Marxuach and other officials of the nonpartisan, San Juan-based Center for a New Economy said federal spending on disaster recovery has been slower than in other areas also struck by hurricanes in 2017.

The Los Angeles airport enterprise received a Moody's ratings boost ahead of plans to price $650 million in subordinate revenue bonds.

U.S. purchases of new homes fell more than estimated in September to the weakest pace since December 2016.

Moody's Investors Service said Palmetto Health's integration with Greenville Health may result in a rating upgrade for Palmetto and a downgrade for Greenville.

Manufacturing growth in the central Atlantic region “expanded moderately in October,” while prices accelerated.

Clients have filed hundreds of similar claims against UBS since 2013, with aggregate damages of $2.6 billion.

Next month Maine voters will be asked to borrow $106 million for the state's transportation infrastructure, adding to hundreds of millions of dollars in debt the state has taken on in recent years to prop up its underfunded highway budget.

Voters in one of the nation's fastest-growing counties will decide on a $750 million bond measure for roads as one of its school districts seeks $690 million.

What began as trouble in the housing and mortgage markets shook the whole world in 2008, including a municipal bond industry that had to learn to live without bond insurance, auction-rate debt and some big investment banks.

Fitch Ratings said it won't lower its ratings because of JEA's litigation attempting to shed a power purchase agreement with Georgia's MEAG.

Proposition 4 would authorize $1.5 billion in state GO bonds for 13 childrens' hospitals around the state, eight of them private nonprofits.