Northeast

The New York State Thruway Authority plans to issue $779.3 million of second general highway and bridge trust fund bonds, Series 2012A, on Wednesday by negotiated bid.

Boston will go to market again on Wednesday with $238 million of new-money and refunding general obligation bonds sold through competitive bid.

Woonsocket, R.I., reeling from yet another downgrade, may not be able to avoid bankruptcy and could run out of cash in April, one lawmaker said Friday.

Suffolk County is home to Long Island's Hamptons beach resorts and carries the monicker "playground of the rich." It's also home to a projected $530 million budget deficit over three years, and the county fears it will run out of money in April.

Some Rhode Island lawmakers have little or no appetite for Gov. Lincoln Chafee’s proposal to raise the meals tax to 10%.

Standard & Poor's changed St. Peter's Hospital’s outlook to positive from stable, citing immediate benefits from the Albany hospital's recent merger.

The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York is scheduled to sell $205 million of new-money and refunding bonds for New York University this week, following a one-day retail order period. Bank of America Merrill Lynch is the lead underwriter.

Moody's Investors Service affirmed the A1 rating on the township of Little Egg Harbor's general obligation bonds, affecting $13.4 million of outstanding parity debt obligations.

Moody's Investors Service revised Collingswood's rating direction to uncertain from downgrade review, but maintained its Ba1 junk-bond rating on $28 million of outstanding long-term general obligation debt.

Standard & Poor’s revised the outlook to stable from negative and affirmed the BB-plus long-term rating on the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency’s revenue bonds that were issued for Eastern Nazarene College of Quincy, Mass.