Public finance

Lower gas prices, remote working, easy driving and new competition from ride-share companies are taking slices of the pie.

The layout of Los Angeles means the concept wouldn't work as proposed in Manhattan, Eric Garcetti said in New York.

Municipal bond buyers faced a wide variety of securities that came to market on Monday.

Shawnee County, Kansas, commissioners on Monday morning approved by a 3-0 vote a resolution to issue about $13 million in taxable industrial revenue bonds for a shopping development in west Topeka.

Franklin, with preliminary assets under management of $712.3 billion, including $63.4 billion of tax exempts, has suffered net outflows since 2014.

Jerry Zaro, chairman of Gateway Development Corp., discusses the importance of replacing a 108-year old rail tunnel linking New Jersey with Manhattan and how lack of support from the Trump administration has prevented the $12.7 billion project from getting off the ground. Andrew Coen hosts.

Action got underway in the primary on Monday as an Iowa school district sold over $100 million of general obligations.

Chairman Patrick Foye and board members want answers to repeated snafus over the installation of train safety technology.

A $1.6 billion note deal from the New York State Thruway Authority this week will roll over an issue sold in 2013 as part of a financing for the $4 billion Mario Cuomo Bridge.

S&P Global Ratings downgraded the University of Connecticut to A-plus from AA-minus.

The Bond Buyer's Northeast Regional Editor Paul Burton speaks to CBC President Andrew Rein about the NYC Fiscal 2020 executive budget.

Eric Garcetti unveiled his fiscal 2020 budget proposal for Los Angeles.

The weekly average yield to maturity of The Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index, which is based on 40 long-term bond prices, rose to 3.89% from 3.88% the week before.

Next week’s calendar should benefit from timing and availability coming on the heels of both the income tax deadline and the holiday-shortened week.

Nuveen, in its defense against Preston Hollow's lawsuit, says its conduct in the fight for bond business was legal whether the other firm likes it or not.

The hospital system will sell $250 million of bonds using the Michigan Finance Authority as conduit.

The Oversight Board in its fiscal plan had projected a 5.06% population drop after the 2017 hurricanes; the Census Bureau found a 3.9% decline.

Reaching beyond numbers, Health + Hospitals President Mitchell Katz is striving to overhaul a long-problematic $8 billion city unit.

The top muni bond counsel firms accounted for $74.79 billion in 1,783 transactions in the first quarter of 2019, up from $61.46 billion in 1,655 deals a year earlier. Although overall business was up, most of the top firms didn't quite achieve higher totals than they had during the same time last year.

PFM, Acacia and Piper move up in FA rankings, as deal volume handled by the top firms rose 18.6% from last year's depressed level to $64.32 billion.