Washington

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is making grants and low-cost loans available for the improvement or development of rural water and wastewater infrastructure projects to comply with a congressional mandate.

The MSRB is hurrying to release multiple rounds of guidance on its pending muni advisor advertising rule, but industry groups say the first round could use some polish.

But Eduardo Bhatia, minority leader of the Puerto Rico Senate, said he welcomes the proposal for $7.5 billion in debt relief.

The Public Employee Pension Transparency Act (HR 6290) would prohibit states and localities from issuing tax-exempt bonds unless they file annual reports on their public pension systems to the U.S. Treasury Department.

The market will have to wait for meeting minutes to learn policy makers' thinking on the accelerating GDP, the yield curve, interest rates, and trade wars.

The resource document the MSRB released Thursday is designed to help dealers comply with rule changes on markup disclosures to retail investors that took effect on May 14.

Tax Reform 2.0 would make permanent the lower individual tax rates in last year’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that are scheduled to expire in 2025.

The black box gang has always mistaken complexity for sophistication in the realm of financial modeling.

Luke Tilley, chief economist at Wilmington Trust, discusses monetary policy and how a yield curve inversion could limit Fed rate hikes. Gary Siegel hosts.

The U.S. Territorial Relief Act of 2018 would give territories the option to terminate their debt obligations while authorizing $7.5 billion in federal funds to compensate mainland creditors who are individual investors, trade unions, pension plans, and open-end mutual funds.