Northeast

Atlantic City's junk-rated Municipal Utilities Authority could play a key role in deciding the distressed city's financial fate.

Changes to Pennsylvania school district enhanced ratings by bond agencies are confusing the capital markets, according to PNC Capital Markets.

Fortune 500 behemoth General Electric plans to bring 100 tech jobs to Rhode Island, Gov. Gina Raimondo announced.

Most New York City agencies improved their rate of starting capital projects in 2015, said city Comptroller Scott Stringer.

The New Jersey Supreme Court upheld Gov. Chris Christie’s 2011 suspension of cost of living adjustments for retirees’ pension benefits in a ruling that keeps the state's pension funding position from getting even worse.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday that he and the City Council had reached agreement on a final $82.1 billion budget for Fiscal 2017, the earliest the two sides had approved a fiscal plan in 15 years.

Nassau Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. is selling its Farmingdale, N.Y. branch to pay debt service for revenue anticipation notes it defaulted on in March.

Construction of Maryland's Purple Line P3 rail project will be financed with PABs and a low-interest TIFIA loan.

Patrick Marr will become chief of staff at Rhode Island Treasury, General Treasurer Seth Magaziner announced.

Massachusetts does not expect to draw on the state's rainy-day budget to fill a $311 million revenue gap for fiscal 2016, a budget official tells investors.