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The top 20 more than doubled the gains of their fixed-income industry peers.

FOMC members backed maintaining asset purchases, although “a couple” were “open” to “weighting purchases of Treasury securities toward longer maturities,” according to minutes released Wednesday.

Sources expect funding to be put to use quickly compared to the CARES Act since many cities since stood up programs to provide pandemic related aid to households and small businesses.

Bond attorneys said the new rules fill in some holes because the IRS previously only had a process for tax-exempt bonds.

Federal Reserve officials unanimously backed holding the pace of asset purchases steady when they met last month.

The apparent victories by Democrats in two Senate runoff races in Georgia is a "game changer" for public finance.

The National Association of Bond Lawyers wrote to the IRS in November 2019 asking for a significant reduction in the fee.

Lynnette Kelly started new positions at the Financial Accounting Foundation and at the Milken Institute.

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans says monetary policy will need to remain “accommodative for quite a while,” since inflation won’t hit a 2% average for “a long time.”

Robbi Jones, principal at Kipling Jones & Co., received that ruling on appeal from FINRA’s National Adjudicatory Council late last month.