Public finance

The two firms hope the more formal union will pave the way for an expansion of products and services and the speed by which they go to clients.

Investors are ready and waiting for another deal-driven week with an estimated $11.8 billion.

Louisianans re-elected their Democratic governor, but gave Republicans a Senate supermajority; New Orleans voters authorized $500 million of GO bonds.

The agency's repair backlog is measured in the tens of billions of dollars.

Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District will sell $323 million of new money and refunding bonds as it prepares to ask voters for $500 million in new authority.

Voters in the Lone Star State approved $14.5 billion of the $16 billion in state and local bonds on the ballot Nov. 5.

Sandy Kerl has been acting general manager since Maureen Stapleton retired in March from the top slot.

The supply surge trend continues as the municipal bond market will see almost $12 billion of new deals hit the screens this week.

Indianapolis airport is back with a refunding of notes but it is holding plans to refund variable rate debt because it no longer makes economic sense.

The action in the municipal market won't slow down yet, as bond hungry money managers will get a third week in a row of issuance greater than $11 billion.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the city can manage through 2020 and will wait for the 2020 session to resurrect requests.

The city is issuing its very first green bond deal and the first ever airport green bond deal.

The question of how to pay for the governor's $21 billion, 10-year transportation bill points to the political third rail of highway tolls.

Montreal businessman Anthony McCord will arrive next month as New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's chief transformation officer to address the authority's myriad operational and capital funding challenges.

Municipals spent Thursday following the rally in Treasuries, with new issues dominating the focus.

The state will pool the assets of 650 public safety pension funds outside Chicago into two new funds: one for police and one for firefighters.

Next week's $500 million taxable revenue bond deal is backed by a 1% surcharge on annual incomes higher than $1 million.

David Hammer, vice president and head of municipal bond portfolio management at PIMCO, discusses munis' historic year in terms of performance and inflows and breaks down what makes muni so attractive. This podcast, recorded in September, is hosted by Aaron Weitzman.

The Chicago Civic Federation supports the proposed budget despite worries

The municipal market was hit with a ton and a half of new issuance with bond hungry investors waiting with open arms and cash in hand.