Northeast

Connecticut this week will issue $353 million of general obligation bonds, including $337.6 million of SIFMA index bonds, to retire bond anticipation notes that are coming due.

The Massachusetts Development Finance Agency this week will issue $353.4 million of tax-exempt and taxable debt on behalf of the Broad Institute Inc., a biomedical research facility, to help finance a new laboratory and building in Cambridge.

New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority Thursday announced that it plans to sell three buildings on Madison Avenue in midtown Manhattan to raise about $150 million.

Clifton Gunderson LLP will help Harrisburg with its overdue 2009 audit and its 2010 audit.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett last week appointed Ann Dugan to serve on the board of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority, which oversees Pittsburgh's budget and fiscal issues.

Electronic giant Panasonic Corp. will move its headquarters to Newark from Secaucus with the help of $102.4 million of tax breaks from the state.

Standard & Poor's last week revised its outlook to positive from stable for AHS Hospital Corp., which operates three facilities in northeastern New Jersey. The rating is A.

New York City is looking for financial, pricing, and swap advisory services to assist it and its issuers as they plan to sell $29 billion of new-money bonds from fiscal 2012 through 2015.

The Delaware River and Bay Authority could raise Delaware Memorial Bridge tolls by $1 on July 1 to help finance nearly $200 million of capital needs during the next five years.

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is auditing $228.1 million of “green” bonds issued in February 2007 by the Syracuse, N.Y., Industrial Development Agency to determine if they violated tax laws.