Northeast

Moody's Investors Service upgraded Cooper Health System, N.J., bonds, issued through the Camden County Improvement Authority, to Baa2 from Baa3.

Armed with an upward revision from Moody's Investors Service, New Haven, Conn., plans sell $90.2 million of general obligation bonds.

Scranton's 0.75% commuter tax to help fund the city's wobbly pension plans is a credit positive for the Pennsylvania city, said Moody's.

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

As his term winds down, Massachusetts Treasurer Steve Grossman cites enhanced disclosure, innovation and an improved bond rating.

The Internal Revenue Service has told the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development that it is auditing bonds the authority issued in 2005 for a charter school project in Philadelphia “because of information we received from external sources or developed internally that causes a concern” that there are tax-law violations.

Robert Yaro will retire as president of the Regional Plan Association at the end of the year, the urban planning group announced.

The New York City Transitional Finance Authority may have found the perfect deal structure to take advantage of the lack of short term paper in the market.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett released a $265 million advance to the teetering Philadelphia School District to help it fill a budget gap.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Comptroller Scott Stringer called for cutting consultants and re-establishing the city as the lead in an overhaul of the troubled emergency 911 system.