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One CEO raised some concerns about electronic trading that he said regulators should consider.

New grant programs eliminate the need for TIGER program, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said.

The campaign finance board cited the straw-voter scandal that emerged during his 2013 run.

Slow removal of monetary policy accommodation will help raise inflation to 2%, according to Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans.

A successful Federal Reserve chair must be a respected analyst of the economy able to forge a consensus among colleagues, Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan said.

The plaintiffs had alleged G-37 amendments would restrict the political contributions of municipal advisors.

The downgrade affected $38.4 million of general obligation debt.

State balance sheets were driven by a new accounting standard that require reporting pension obligations.

Former Ramapo, N.Y. town supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence is arguing he should either be acquitted or retried because of errors by the judge made before and during the trial as well as prejudice from jurors who found him guilty of 20 counts of conspiracy and fraud in connection with municipal bonds issued by the town and an authority.

The federal government ran an $90.2 billion deficit in June, the Treasury Department reported Thursday.