Northeast

A state board delayed a vote on an estimated $270 million parking lease deal for Harrisburg, Pa., one of two transactions essential to the city's recovery plan.

While still fighting to shake its rust-belt image, Allentown, Pa., undertook two major transactions in the past year, including a downtown arena project.

New York City plans to sell $700 million of tax-exempt fixed rate general obligation bonds on Dec. 10 by negotiation after a two-day retail order period.

Collingswood, N.J.'s general obligation bond rating is "back where it always should have been," its mayor said after Standard & Poor's assigned it a AA-minus rating.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett signed the far-reaching transportation bill that lawmakers enacted last week after lengthy debate.

Harrisburg, Pa., receivership officials and the agency buying the city's incinerator hope to sell bonds next week to finance a purchase aimed at keeping the city out of bankruptcy.

Collingswood, N.J., which objected two years ago when Moody's Investors Service slammed it with a six-notch downgrade to junk, got a AA-minus rating from S&P.

New York State tax collections are running slightly better than projections in the first seven months of the fiscal year.

New relationships with banking firms are expected to generate an additional $21 million per year for the New York City pension funds, Comptroller John Liu said.

The specter of another top taxpayer leaving Woonsocket, R.I., could be a credit negative for the city, said Moody's Investors Service.