Investments

Muni bond buyers were wary ahead of this week’s smaller-than-average new issue calendar as Federal Reserve policy makers gathered.

The SEC's Investor Advisory Committee's vice chairman is Elisse Walter, the former chairman and commissioner of the SEC who was most responsible for the commission's 2012 Report on the Municipal Securities Markets that suggested some of these muni reforms.

Borders is an 11-year veteran of the public finance field and was previously at Chapman and Cutler LLP in Chicago.

John Bel Edwards also called a new special session in hopes of solving an impasse on priority spending.

Chances that the 42-year-old Navajo Generating Station could survive beyond 2019 have improved with President Trump's plan to subsidize coal.

San Francisco voters approved a parcel tax aimed at retaining teachers through salary raises.

Branches in every borough struggle to stay open due to broken boilers, leaky roofs and other serious maintenance problems, said the Center for an Urban Future.

Municipal bonds were mixed ahead of this week’s smaller-than-average new issue calendar and the FOMC meeting.

Faced with a long list of expensive and necessary upgrades to the city's wastewater treatment plant, Lewiston, Idaho, officials could soon ask a district judge to approve $28 million in bonding authority.

Fiscal restraints under a new bond covenant contributed to strong demand for a state GO sale, said state Treasurer Denise Nappier.

The Conroe Independent School District is considering a bond election only four years after voters approved a $487 million bond referendum in 2015.

Riverdale, Illinois, will leverage its share of state income tax taxes with a junk-rated deal.

Long Beach and Burbank voters approved measures that allow municipal utilities to transfer revenue to their general funds.

The proposed settlement may determine how much money is available for the biggest class of bondholders in Puerto Rico's municipal bankruptcy.

Munis will see more than $5 billion of new supply, with the Federal Open Market Committee set to meet next week and raise interest rates again.

The state has $500 million of extra revenue to divvy up.

S&P Global Ratings revised the state's outlook to stable from negative, and Moody’s says the budget's Medicaid expansion is credit positive for hospitals.

Voters in the greater Portland area will decide in November whether to approve a measure to provide funding for affordable housing.

Funding questions and palace intrigue accompany Andy Byford's plan to modernize New York City's buses and subways.

Members of the state Parkways Authority approved a bond resolution Thursday authorizing the sale of more than $300 million in bonds, to be funded by doubling tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike.