The Justice Department analysis was released Wednesday in conjunction with a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on two competing bills aimed at determining the territory’s future.

Now the fifth largest bank in the U.S., PNC will expand its banking and capital markets activities across the Southwest and Western regions.

The two systems began negotiations in January to transfer 14 CommonSpirit hospitals in Minnesota and North Dakota to Essentia.

Northwest Community became the second independent hospital to affiliate with the Evanston, Ill.-based NorthShore Health system over the past year.

The COVID-19 pandemic is both reinforcing traditional strategies that drive consolidation and steering new trends

Illinois is among the states that critics say have downplayed their unfunded long-term debts and should be forced by new GASB rules to become more transparent.

Munis were stronger across the curve as secondary trading was constructive and bellwether credits moved yields lower.

Leveraging technology for the creation and distribution of both companies’ products while also providing transparency and educational tools for financial advisors, institutions and issuers, is key to the merger.

The deal is the latest example of a consolidation in the financial information and data industry.

CommonSpirt would shed some hospitals — mostly smaller critical access ones — under a letter of intent with the Minnesota-based system.