Massachusetts

The Massachusetts School Building Authority has scheduled an $80.2 million competitive refunding sale of senior sales tax notes.

Gov.-elect Charlie Baker, who remembers the commonwealth's BBB days, wants Massachusetts to aim for a triple-A rating.

Massachusetts should increase its rainy-day fund and further lower its expected pension fund rate of return, incoming state treasurer Deborah Goldberg told investors.

Massachusetts investors will get to review the past four years and peer at the future at the commonwealth's fourth annual conference in Boston.

The Massachusetts Development Finance Agency issued a $14.6 million bond for affordable housing in Boston's Chinatown.

Massachusetts won The Bond Buyer's 13th annual Deal of the Year award Thursday night for its issuance of MassDirect notes.

The Massachusetts Clean Water Trust is planning its first green-bond sale for the week of Dec. 8, according to state Treasurer Steven Grossman.

The Massachusetts Development Finance Agency and the Wentworth Institute of Technology have entered into a settlement with the Internal Revenue Service to resolve tax issues relating to land located in Concord, Mass. that was acquired with bond proceeds. The institution sold the land in 1998 without redeeming bonds or finding alternative qualified use for the sale proceeds at the time.

The Massachusetts Development Finance Agency issued a $20 million tax-exempt bond to renovate affordable housing in Boston neighborhoods.

Most public pension funds assume rates of return inconsistent with their portfolio allocations and many invest heavily in low-yield assets such as fixed income and real estate, said a Pioneer Institute study.

The Massachusetts Development Finance Agency issued a $4.1 million tax-exempt bond on behalf of Cerebral Palsy of Massachusetts.

Massachusetts plans to resume its MassDirect notes sale, rolling offerings for retail investors totaling $510 million over nine months.

The Massachusetts Development Finance Agency is soliciting nominations from so called "gateway" cities for investments that can trigger sustained economic development.

Massachusetts has come to terms with a Greater Boston transit union to release long-secretive pension data.

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission granted Wynn Resorts the Greater Boston casino license as a November referendum on a casino ban looms.

Massachusetts begins a three-day retail order period for $350 million of general obligation environmental green bonds in a week in which it also has a $330 million GO refunding on the calendar.

In Rhode Island, state Treasurer Gina Raimondo and Cranston Mayor Allan Fung will face off for governor after winning primaries on a day that also featured primaries in Massachusetts and New York.

The Massachusetts Housing Partnership, which received a AA-minus rating from S&P, expects to sign a new funding agreement with Fannie Mae this week.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has issued an RFP for an air-rights project at its Hynes Convention Center station over the Turnpike.

The opening of Greater Boston's first new subway station in 27 years is a credit positive for Somerville, Mass., said Moody's Investors Service.