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The economic outlook has not changed, Federal Reserve Board Gov. Lael Brainard said in a televised interview Friday, suggesting the Fed’s projected rate hikes are on target unless data changes require adjustment.

The Federal Reserve will need to continue raising interest rates, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Loretta Mester said.

One Democrat said the controversy showed the difficulty President Trump faces selling his plan to spur $1.5 trillion in infrastructure investment with an expansion of private activity bonds.

A Securities and Exchange Commission proposal that may trigger additional MSRB rulemaking is open for comment, and the MSRB is scheduled to discuss it next week.

Gary Pzegeo, head of fixed income at CIBC Atlantic Trust Private Wealth Management, discusses the changes at the Fed, including two new nominees, and what this means for monetary policy and the possibility of dynamic inflation targeting. Gary Siegel hosts.

The case involves as much as $100 billion in state and local sales tax revenue over the next decade, according the e-commerce retailers that are defendants in the lawsuit.

Local government public safety pension funds are armed with new funding enforcement mechanism.

Inflation and the unemployment rate will determine if monetary policy will need to become restrictive in the coming years, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley said Wednesday.

New tariffs and concerns over widening trade disputes cast a shadow over the Federal Reserve’s most recent survey of U.S. businesses even as all 12 regions reported continued robust job growth with few signs of overheating.

With the latest bout of flattening, the reality of sub-zero spreads may soon collide with an otherwise sanguine outlook on the economy.