Investments

Chicago homeowners face a record property tax hike after the city's downtown office buildings and other commercial real estate values fell again.

The "data dumps" over the next several weeks could lead to market volatility, said Abdulla Begai, director and fixed income portfolio management at A&M Private Wealth Partners.

Transit advocates are pushing back on the Trump administration exploring the elimination of the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund.

Moody's cited the airport's "significant improvement in liquidity" and "continued enplanement recovery" in its decision to upgrade the rating to Aa3.

The long-awaited budget closely resembles the governor's original proposal, pared down by just over $1 billion.

Ten winners across five regions and five additional categories will be celebrated Dec. 2 in New York City, where one will be crowned the overall Deal of the Year.

Bank of America provided a letter of credit for Harvard after the Trump administration put it on a list usually reserved for vocational and beauty schools. 

Issuance year-to-date is at $505.245, just shy of 2024's record of $507.585 billion, with $11.109 billion of supply on the calendar for the week of Nov. 17.

Two House municipal finance caucus members are running for Senate next year.

The Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project had a deadline Friday for bondholder consent to a settlement resolving construction disputes.

Negative rating and outlook revisions for U.S. K-12 public school districts rose markedly from 2024 to 2025, according to S&P Global Ratings.

For munis, the end of the shutdown helps steady the backdrop, said James Pruskowski, an investor and market strategist.

Rural providers face $137 billion in federal Medicaid cuts from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

The end of the government shutdown includes clearing three of twelve appropriations hurdles while questions linger about the future of the highway reauthorization bill.

Multi-layered state oversight, strict fiscal safeguards and durable revenue pledges support New York City GO and TFA bonds even as investors brace for policy shifts under mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

A state audit of the Houston-based HBCU that identified financial issues led the governor to direct state agencies to launch an investigation.

Illinois lawmakers sent Gov. JB Pritzker a bill to facilitate the use of STAR bonds for economic development, which has happened only once in 15 years.

The Florida county is in the midst of executing a $9 billion capital improvement plan.

"Continuing yield stability ... suggests a comfortable market that, even with the shutdown apparently close to ending, may resist/lag potential price/yield changes in taxables," said Matt Fabian, president of Municipal Market Analytics.

The city said it needed the money to be able to make payroll in November and December.