New Hampshire

ROCHESTER, N.H. -- City Councilors voted 10-2 Tuesday night to approve a $4.8 million bond for upgrades to Rochester's career technical center.

Eight northeast issuers with a combined $382.3 million in debt have been placed on review by Moody's Investors Service.

Two large bond proposition approved in Philadelphia and Maine highlighted a busy Election Day in the Northeast region.

New Hampshire's Dartmouth-Hitchcock Obligated Group received a one notch downgrade from one rating agency while another placed it on watch with negative implications.

Northeast issuers sold $57.4 billion of municipal bonds in the first half of 2016, a 3% increase from the first six months of 2015, according to Thomson Reuters data.

Three Democratic Senators representing states without sales taxes recently wrote a letter to Senate leadership opposing federal legislation that would impose an Internet tax sales tax on its businesses.

Issuers in the Northeast sold $102.9 billion of municipal bonds in 2015, almost 9% above the previous year's volume.

New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan is pitching a 10-year $3.7 billion transportation plan that thanks to federal assistance allows the state to tackle more infrastructure needs.

New Hampshire ended its 2015 fiscal year with a $62 million surplus, according to the state's new Comprehensive Annual Financial Report.

The New Hampshire Health and Education Facilities Authority’s decision to withdraw its request to settle under a special voluntary closing agreement program for student-loan bond issuers has paid off.

New Hampshire's Carroll County is in the midst of a financial crisis with a $2 million deficit that needs to be plugged this year after revenues were overestimated

Issuers in the Northeast sold $54.2 billion of municipal bonds in the first half of 2015 rising 26% compared to the first six months of 2014.

Municipal bond issuance volume in the Northeast was little changed in 2014, rising 1% from 2013 volume as issuers weighed low interest rates against their ongoing fiscal challenges.

New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan has proposed a two year budget plan that includes a 6.4% spending increase, but would also cut more than $1 billion from state agency requests.

Northeast bond issuance was stronger in the first half of 2014 than it was in the United States.

Fitch Ratings revised its outlook to negative from stable on $130 million of Covenant Health System revenue bonds in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Moody's Investors Service downgraded Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, N.H., revenue bonds to Baa1 from A3

Standard & Poor's has revised its outlook on New Hampshire's general obligation AA bond rating to negative from stable.

The Internal Revenue Service has concluded that $720 million of student-loan bonds issued by a New Hampshire authority are taxable, leading the issuer to move toward requesting an administrative appeal and asking the IRS to reopen its audits of the bonds.

The Internal Revenue Service thinks that interest on $720 million of bonds issued by the New Hampshire Health and Education Facilities Authority from 1998 to 2011 should not be tax-exempt.