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The big gain suggests the manufacturing sector will be a positive for economic growth in the near term.

States are currently projecting revenue declines of 12% to as high as 40% in the current fiscal year.

A Government Finance Officers Association-led working group put out recommendations this week on timely and pandemic-related disclosure.

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Esther George, who has been among the most hawkish Fed policy makers, doesn’t oppose some overshooting of the central bank’s 2% inflation target and sees more risk of price pressures being too weak than too strong.

Trump's bare-bones campaign agenda released Aug. 23 promises to “build the world’s greatest infrastructure system.”

Nine major toll roads could generate more than $76 billion to help states deal with coronavirus pandemic costs.

Observers expect the Fed to use the gathering, virtual this year, to release the new monetary policy framework it's been working on.

If a relief bill with state and local government aid is not passed by the end of September, some say it could be folded into continuing resolutions, which fund the government past its Sept. 30 deadline.

Recent inflation data suggests an expected pickup in inflation, but economists see a different picture.

A group of former Federal Reserve officials and staffers, including former Vice Chairman Alan Blinder, published an open letter Thursday calling on the U.S. Senate to reject President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judy Shelton to the central bank’s Board of Governors.