Public finance

As the Puerto Rico Oversight Board gets ready to approve a five-year fiscal plan this week, it is setting up a power struggle between itself and Gov. Ricardo Rosselló and the commonwealth legislature.

Weekly bond volume is forecast to fall to $5.9 billion from $10.3 billion in the prior week.

The Hillsborough County Aviation Authority prices a new-money deal Tuesday for Tampa international Airport, boosted by an upgrade from Kroll.

The new GASB standards apply to Other Post-Employment Benefits, or OPEB, which mostly pertain to retiree health benefits, but also can include dental, vision, disability and death benefits.

S&P Global Ratings cautioned Chicago's leaders about issuing pension obligation bonds and avoiding a backslide on budget progress.

Household survey is much more positive about total employment than establishment survey.

Municipal bond supply plunges to under $6 billion next week after seeing over $10 billion of new issues priced this week.

Creditors' call for a receiver for PREPA is an Imperfect solution from a suspect source to be decided by the wrong authority – and it just might work.

The Oversight Board and Gov. Rosselló remain at odds over pensions and labor reform.

Long Island’s Nassau County is staring at its lowest budget deficit in four years, according to its state fiscal control board.

The last of the large municipal bond deals came to market on Thursday, led by a $1.5 billion healthcare offering from Ohio.

Proceeds from a $40.64 million multifamily conduit revenue bond issue will benefit the residents of the Georgia King Village Project.

The city is also considering its first general obligation bond issue since 2017.

Only two Michigan school districts remain under state oversight.

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

Things began to quiet down in the municipal bond market on Thursday, as most of the big deals have come and gone for the week.

Andrew Kleine discusses his new book “City on the Line,” which takes readers through his rollercoaster 10-year run as Baltimore budget director — from arriving amid the Great Recession, working with Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake in the lead up to the 2015 riots and implementing outcome based budgeting to achieve a fiscal turnaround. Hosted by Andrew Coen.

"I thought their approach was novel," Connecticut Lottery Corp. President Gregory Smith said of New Jersey's maneuver to boost pension funding.

Rahm Emanuel, who is not seeking re-election, offered a budget with no tax increases or answers to long-term pension funding questions.

California competitively sold nearly $900 million of bonds while the Salt Lake City airport deal was priced in the negotiated sector.