Munis

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.

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

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.

Municipal bond buyers will see a smaller-than-average new issue calendar as issuers remain cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy meeting

A judge signed off Thursday on the city's interim settlement with its police and fire pension funds,

The latest Federal Reserve data shows the first decline in bank holdings of municipal securities in nearly a decade, a result of tax reform, according to experts.

May was the third straight month of growth in the municipal CUSIP category, driven by pent-up demand.

The Kentucky county’s BB general obligation bond rating was withdrawn less than a month after S&P Global Ratings downgraded the bonds seven notches.

Municipal bonds continued to show weakness at midday as the last of the week's larger deals were selling.

The massive amount of local debt Texas voters have authorized could limit governments' flexibility, Moody's Investors Service says.

The plan would raise power costs, but analysts say municipal utilities and energy cooperatives can absorb the increases or pass them on to customers.

The IRS Office of Professional Responsibility took no action on the misconduct allegation against Brad Waterman, but informed him that a record of it would be kept for 25 years and revisited if needed.

Bedford Schools is moving forward with a proposed $35 million bond issue for the November ballot.

The city will decide whether to apply the designation to an upcoming deal to fund housing for homeless people.

The city will issue $80 million of limited tax general obligation bonds and $64 million subordinate lien income tax bonds,

Gov. John Bel Edwards objected to a spending plan that would impose cuts of more than 24% on most state agencies.