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The House approved rules changes Thursday that include restoration of the so-called Gephardt rule that links passage of the annual budget resolution to a debt ceiling increase.

Only five priorities remain on the Treasury and IRS work plan in 2019 for the municipal bond market.

Bond traders are showing little sign of stepping back from their fight with the Federal Reserve over the path of interest rates and the market is now positioned for cuts on the horizon.

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan said the U.S. central bank should put interest rates on hold as it waits to see how uncertainties about global growth, weakness in interest-sensitive industries and tighter financial conditions play out.

The Federal Register publication of the finalized PAB regulation takes effect April 1, but part of it can be implemented by issuers immediately.

In its 28-page financial report released Wednesday, the board reported that its net assets increased by over $4.3 million.

A market indicator watched by the Fed as one of the most accurate gauges of economic health is pricing in lower rates for the first time in more than a decade.

Municipal issuance fell by 24% to $338 billion for 2018 as changes in U.S. tax law crushed the market.

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Of all the holiday gatherings Jerome Powell gets invited to, a sit-down in the Oval Office might be one of the last he’d want to attend.