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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors followed recently elected Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ lead and declared a state…

David Hodapp, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s director of market regulation, will be leaving the MSRB and his departure is…

HilltopSecurities Inc. has hired 12 municipal bond veterans from Prager & Co. LLC to join its public finance group in…

Tennessee’s roads need $34 billion in work and Gov. Bill Lee thinks public private partnerships could help fund it.Lee unveiled…

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Susan Collins said she’s leaning toward supporting a quarter-point interest rate hike at the…

The municipal market tone continues to be positive as munis were firmer again. U.S. Treasury yields fell and equities ended…

Columbia Capital Management LLC’s hiring of veteran municipal advisor and banker Jim Stricklin puts boots on the ground for the…

House Republicans Tuesday tapped Missouri Rep. Sam Graves as chair of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee.The move was expected,…

The complicated relationship between pension funds and munis is becoming more complex, according to recent projections. “The persistence of the…

The Louisiana State Bond Commission unanimously approved the sale of up to $1.5 billion of tax-exempt bonds to finance the…

The top municipal underwriters accounted for $359.725 billion in 7,896 issues in 2022, down from $457.080 billion in 11,860 transactions…

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The New York City Transitional Finance Authority headlined the top 10 issuers in 2022, almost all of which outperformed their…

President Biden asked Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to stay in her post, and she agreed, a White House official familiar…

In a surprise development, fiery U.S. Rep. Jason Smith was given the nod to lead the crucial tax policy-writing House…

With inflation eroding real earnings, members of Puerto Rico’s House of Representatives want to reduce personal income taxes to give…

Municipals were slightly firmer in spots, while U.S. Treasuries were weaker and equities ended up.The three-year muni-UST ratio was at…

A controversial new law requiring cities and states to standardize their disclosure raises a bevy of questions that market participants…

Advisors and underwriters have until next week to submit their qualifications to work on Chicago Transit Authority financings as the…

Jamie Dimon said the Federal Reserve’s rate hikes might need to go beyond what’s currently expected, but he’s in favor…

Miami remained the city with the least affordable housing market in the United States, according RealtyHop’s Januaryhousing affordability index.The median…

Texas is forecasting a record $32.7 billion budget surplus as a surge in sales taxes boosts the government’s revenue by…

Tim Schaefer, who served the California public finance market for decades as a trader, a banker, a financial advisor and…

Illinois lawmakers passed legislation sending $850 million of surplus revenue to the state’s once-barren rainy-day fund — pushing it to…

Consumers are a bit more optimistic about their financial situation in the coming year despite persistent worries about the economic…

Municipals were firmer Monday as yields continue to fall, while U.S. Treasuries were better and equities ended mixed.Triple-A benchmarks were…

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster’s $36 billion budget proposal for fiscal year 2024 seeks to raise capital spending without adding…

Transit agencies in Chicago and Philadelphia signed an agreement Monday to share their small business enterprises, in what they hope…

More than eight years after the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority stopped paying its bonds and with most other Puerto…

The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s search for a new president is coming down to the wire.Esther George, the…